New to Kendo UI for jQuery? Start a free 30-day trial

Render

methods

Renders the view contents. Accepts a jQuery selector (or jQuery object) to which the contents will be appended. Alternatively, the render method can be called without parameters in order to retrieve the View element for manual insertion/further manipulation.

render

Parameters:containerjQuery

(optional) the element in which the view element will be appended.

Returns:jQuery

the view element.

<div id="app"></div>

<script>
var index = new kendo.View('<span>Hello World!</span>');
index.render("#app");
</script>

<div id="app"></div>

<script>
var index = new kendo.View('<span>Hello World!</span>');
$("#app").append(index.render());
</script>