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Destroy

methods

Finds all Kendo widgets that are children of the specified element and calls their destroy method.

destroy

Parameters:elementString|jQuery|Element

<input id="autocomplete">
<script>
$("#autocomplete").kendoAutoComplete();
/* The result can be observed in the DevTools(F12) console of the browser. */
  console.log($("#autocomplete").data("kendoAutoComplete") != null); // outputs "true"
  kendo.destroy(document.body);
/* The result can be observed in the DevTools(F12) console of the browser. */
  console.log($("#autocomplete").data("kendoAutoComplete") != null); // outputs "false"
</script>