Hide the DropDownList with the operators in the columnMenu of the Grid

Environment

Description

I want to display columnMenu in the Grid columns without the DropDown for changing the operators. Can I achieve this without a custom filter and re-use the filter input?

Solution

Wrap the GridColumnMenuFilter in a DIV element with specific className and use that class name as a selector to hide all elements within the DIV with ".k-dropdownlist" class.

Following is an example demonstrating this approach