Inspecting a Kendo UI Datepicker for theming

Created August 21, 2014 · Updated June 27, 2026 · 1 min read · 11 words

We can catch the close event and prevent it like this:

var datepicker = $("#datepicker").data("kendoDatePicker");
datepicker.bind("close", function(e) {
  e.preventDefault();
});