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Kendo UI Cookbook

You're reading from   Kendo UI Cookbook Over 50 recipes to help you rapidly build rich and dynamic user interfaces for web and mobile platforms.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2014
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781783980000
Length 250 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
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Sagar Ganatra Sagar Ganatra
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Sagar Ganatra
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Kendo UI Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. The Kendo UI Application Framework FREE CHAPTER 2. The Kendo UI Grid 3. Kendo UI TreeView 4. Kendo UI Editor 5. Kendo UI PanelBar 6. Kendo UI File Uploader 7. Kendo UI Window 8. Kendo UI Mobile Framework 9. Kendo UI Mobile Widgets 10. Kendo UI DataViz 11. Kendo UI DataViz – Advance Charting Index

Displaying data from a local or remote DataSource component in a Grid view


A Grid component can be created using the data present in the page or by referring to model data, that is, data in the JSON format. The Kendo UI library provides a DataSource component that can be used to store a model data. The DataSource component can be bound to a local data source or to a remote service that returns data in either the XML or JSON format.

How to do it…

As mentioned in the previous recipe, we can either use a table element or a div element to construct a Grid:

<div id="grid">
        
</div>

Now, when we initialize the Grid using the kendoGrid function, we need to specify the configuration and data for the table:

$("#grid").kendoGrid({
  columns: [
    {
      field : 'movieName',
      title : 'Movie'
    },
    {
      field : 'year',
      title : 'Year'
    },
    {
      field : 'rating',
      title : 'Rating'
    }
  ],  
  dataSource: [
    {
      movieName : 'The Shawshank Redemption...
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