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Destroy

methods

Prepares the ChainOfThought for safe removal from DOM. Detaches all event handlers and removes jQuery.data attributes to avoid memory leaks.

Important: This method does not remove the ChainOfThought element from DOM.

destroy

<div id="chain"></div>
<script>
$("#chain").kendoChainOfThought({ label: "Thinking" });
var chain = $("#chain").data("kendoChainOfThought");
chain.destroy();
</script>