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Destroy

methods

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

destroy

<div id="segmentedControl"></div>
<script>
$("#segmentedControl").kendoSegmentedControl({
  items: [
    { text: "Option 1", value: "option1" },
    { text: "Option 2", value: "option2" }
  ]
});
var segmentedControl = $("#segmentedControl").data("kendoSegmentedControl");
segmentedControl.destroy();
</script>