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Children

fields

The child kendo.data.HierarchicalDataSource of the node. This field is initialized lazily if the hasChildren field is set or when the load or append methods were called.

children

<script>
var parentTask = new kendo.data.Node({ text: "Parent" });
parentTask.append({ text: "Child" });
/* The result can be observed in the DevTools(F12) console of the browser. */
console.log(parentTask.children.data().length); // outputs "1"
var child = parentTask.children.at(0);
/* The result can be observed in the DevTools(F12) console of the browser. */
console.log(child.text); // outputs "Child"
</script>

<script>
var parentTask = new kendo.data.Node({ text: "Parent" });
parentTask.append({ text: "Child" }); // add new child node
parentTask.children.sync();
</script>