How to have a numeric text box for editing a cell in a Kendo UI grid?

Question

Looking at the Kendo UI grid demos (ASP.NET MVC CSHTML flavor), when editing a cell that is bound to an numeric value, the input becomes a numerictextbox, but I can't seem to reproduce that behavior (on my side in stays a plain input). There must be something that assigns it the data-role attribute or something, but what is it ?

Thanks,

Answer 1

In order to use the model binding and have Kendo automatically assign the respective control, you need to setup a MVC editor template (http://coding-in.net/asp-net-mvc-3-how-to-use-editortemplates/) , i.e. Views/Shared/EditorTemplates. e.g. to render a Kendo NumericTextBox, create an editor template along these lines:

@model int
@(Html.Kendo().NumericTextBox())