Kendo UI Core Documentation

The TaskBoard component allows you to organize items (tasks, notes, projects, etc.) using a column-and-card interface. It features columns (lanes) representing different statuses and cards representing individual items. Users can reorder cards within columns or drag and drop them between columns.

Key features include:

• Data Binding: Support for local and remote data.
• Columns & Cards: Grouping items into lanes and visualizing them as customizable cards.
• Editing: Built-in support for editing both columns and cards.
• Search: A built-in toolbar search tool to filter cards.
• Templates: Custom rendering for columns, cards, and popup headers.
• Accessibility: Support for WAI-ARIA, Section 508, WCAG 2.2, and keyboard navigation.

The Kendo UI Editor is a What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get (WYSIWYG) interface that allows users to create rich textual content. It generates the component value as XHTML markup.

Key capabilities include:

• Modes of operation: Supports classic and inline modes.
• AI integration: Integrates with the AIPrompt component for content generation, revision, and summarization.
• Content Handling: Supports pasting from HTML and Microsoft (MS) Word, and includes a Table Wizard for table configuration.
• Advanced Editing: Features a Format Painter for copying styles, an Image Browser for URL or file-based image selection, and support for immutable HTML elements.
• Security: Provides options to prevent Cross-Site Scripting (XSS).

The Kendo UI DatePicker is a jQuery-based widget that allows users to select a date either by interacting with a calendar popup or by typing directly into an input field.

Key capabilities include:

• Date Constraints: Set minimum and maximum dates, and disable specific days (like weekends or holidays).
• Customization: Use templates to customize the Month view, cells, footer content, and week columns.
• Navigation Control: Configure the initial start view and the depth of navigation available to the user.
• Integration: Works with the Kendo UI DateInput control for the input element.
• Globalization: Supports various languages, locales, and right-to-left (RTL) directions.
• Accessibility: Includes WAI-ARIA attributes and keyboard shortcuts for screen reader support and fast navigation.

The Kendo UI for jQuery Chat component is designed for creating conversational interfaces, supporting communication between users, chatbots, and AI-powered systems.

Note on Versioning: Starting with Kendo UI for jQuery version 2025.3.825, the Chat component has been completely redesigned with an updated API to support new features.

Key capabilities include:

• Conversational UI: Supports message threading, user avatars, and message status.
• AI & Data: Integration with large language models (LLMs) via standalone AI chat client services and data binding to local or remote sources.
• Rich Media: Support for file uploads, media sharing, and speech-to-text.
• Customization: Extensive templating for messages, attachments, and status indicators, as well as 'Adornments' to customize the PromptBox area.

The TreeList component provides a wide range of built-in features for managing hierarchical data:

• Ajax binding: Bind the TreeList to remote data.
• Editing: Supports various editing modes to control data representation.
• Paging: Built-in functionality to paginate data.
• Grouping with aggregates: Display aggregate calculations when data is grouped.
• Excel & PDF Export: Export TreeList content to Excel or PDF formats.
• Column enhancements: Set locked (frozen) columns that remain visible during horizontal scrolling.
• Scrolling: Independent control over vertical and horizontal scrolling.
• Row Selection: Supports different modes of row selection.
• Localization: Support for localized messages.
• Accessibility: WAI-ARIA attributes, screen reader support, and keyboard shortcuts.

The DateInput component supports several advanced features for customization and usability:

• Appearance: Customize size, fill mode, and border radius.
• Floating Label: Configure placeholder text that floats above the field upon interaction.
• Globalization: Adjust date formats (localization) and adapt to specific cultures (internationalization and right-to-left support).
• Accessibility: Provides WAI-ARIA, Section 508, WCAG 2.2, and keyboard support.
• Automatic Correction: Configure whether the component autocorrects user input based on defined Min and Max values.

Features

• Reordering: Enable drag-and-drop to rearrange tile containers.
• Resizing: Allows users to resize containers.
• Containers: Customizable appearance for tiles.
• Dynamic Tiles: Ability to add or remove tiles at runtime.
• Events: Handle component events for custom logic.
• Keyboard Navigation: Built-in keyboard shortcuts.

Known Limitations

• Internet Explorer: The component is not supported in Internet Explorer because the browser does not support CSS gutters.

The DropDownTree component provides several key functionalities for managing hierarchical data:

• Data binding: Supports various approaches to bind to hierarchical data sources.
• Checkboxes: Allows adding checkboxes to items for multiple selection.
• Filtering: Enables users to filter displayed items by their text value.
• Items configuration: Provides options to customize individual nodes.
• Templates: Supports custom look and feel through templates.
• Accessibility: Provides WAI-ARIA, Section 508, WCAG 2.2, and keyboard support.

The SegmentedControl supports several customization and interaction features:

• Layout Modes: Choose between Compact mode (segments size to their content) and Stretch mode (segments share the container width equally).
• Icons: Enhance segments with Kendo UI theme icons, custom CSS classes, or a combination of icons and text.
• Events: Use the Change event to execute custom logic when a user selects a different segment.
• Keyboard Navigation: Supports keyboard interaction for moving focus between buttons and activating segments.

The Kendo UI Menu component for ASP.NET provides several built-in capabilities for building navigation interfaces:

• Appearance: Customize the visual style using CSS.
• Data Binding: Bind the Menu to server endpoints, hierarchical models, or manually define item properties.
• Animations: Define custom animations for opening and closing sub-items.
• ContextMenu: Implement context menus that trigger on right-click or custom events.
• Security Trimming: Built-in functionality to handle menu visibility based on user permissions (enabled by default).
• Icons: Enhance menu items by displaying icons.
• Events: Use various events to intercept and control user interactions.
• Accessibility: Full support for screen readers, including WAI-ARIA, Section 508, WCAG 2.2, and keyboard navigation.