Hello Anthony,
I am afraid that the only way to implement the behavior you describe is to modify the Kendo UI source code - keep in mind that we don't provide support for modified versions of our library.
Of course, you may consider submitting the feature as a request in our
uservoice portal - we will consider it in case it is a popular one.
Regards,
Petyo
Telerik
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