If you can change the button type in the JavaScript, you should be able to change it in the MVC helpers. There should be a direct 1-1 mapping between JS features and MVC features.

>Does this seem like an applicable solution for you?
No. Too much code and boilerplate for something that should be in the box.

Also, a pure JavaScript approach allows the className parameter, but the MVC wrappers do not. The MVC wrappers also ignore adding a class via the HtmlAttributes.  This makes it cumbersome to further integrate Bootstrap styles.

>Does this seem like an applicable solution for you?
No.

I agree, Telerik has this option in each and every other control.  They removed it from this control apparently. :(

I definitely cast my vote for this, I can't seem to understand why you would remove existing functionality.

This is not a satisifactory solution.  I can't imagine it would be that difficult to add this functionality to the Kendo Grid.  Yes there are messy work-arounds for the standard buttons but I have not found a solution for custom buttons.

FWIW, I made my buttons image only with the following css

.abutton,
	div.k-grid .k-grid-edit,
	div.k-grid .k-grid-delete,
	div.k-grid .k-grid-cancel,
	div.k-grid .k-grid-update  {
		display:inline-block;
		width:16px;
		height:16px;
		text-align:center;
		text-indent:-444px;
		min-width:0;
		border:0;
        padding: 0;
	}


    div.k-grid .k-grid-edit {
		background: url('/Content/images/TEdit.png');
	}

	div.k-grid .k-grid-delete {
		background: url('/Content/images/TDelete.png');
	}

	div.k-grid .k-grid-cancel {
		background: url('/Content/images/TDelete.png');
	}

	div.k-grid .k-grid-update {
		background: url('/Content/images/TUpdate.png');
	}

No, Brandon's solution is not an applicable solution, it;s a patronising solution.  

Kendo is missing a large amount of functionality from the old extensions and the Telerik response is always "write more code".  I pay you guys to write the code.  If I had known how much stuff was missing from the kendo controls I would gone to one of your competitors.

While the posted workaround by Kenshin works, there is a significant amount more of code needed on a per-grid basis in order to use links (text only) instead of the buttons. Although this solution *will* work, what used to take one line of code with the Telerik MVC grid now takes more than a dozen!

Yeah, that works for me.  Thanks!

Hi,

I solved it with this css:

<style type="text/css">
.k-grid table tr td .k-button {
    padding: 0 3px;
}
.k-button.button-icononly {
    min-width: 25px !important;
    text-indent: -9999px;
}
.k-button.button-icononly .k-icon {
    float: left;
    margin: 1px 0 0;
}
</style>

Then in Html.Kendo().Grid()
.Columns(columns =>
{
columns.Command(commands =>
{
    commands.Custom("Edit").Action("Edit", "Product").HtmlAttributes(new { @class = "k-grid-edit button-icononly" }).Text("<span class=\"k-icon k-edit\"></span>Edit");
});
})

This way, the buttons looks equal with or without text.

One of the shortcomings of the Telerik grid which would be great to be resolved if this feature is supported is to also allow more configuration over the popup editing window. e.g. I may want small buttons on the grid (image only) and image and text within the popup dialog. If this is difficult then the grid button style should not be inherited by the popup. (i.e. it should always be image and text)

Absolutely necessary for migrating our products from the existing grids to kendo

+1

+1

please we need this like when using Telerik extensions

I need this option!  My website in Telerik MVC Extensions currently resets all of the buttons to be image only when accessed from a mobile device, and it works very well.  Forcing the text into all the buttons makes the screens much harder to use on a phone.

yes pls.  there should be an option for this in the Kendo UI like the Telerik extensions for ASP.NET MVC.  People may not want to see the text "Delete" , "Edit".  they may just want to see the image representation for it with a tooltip upon hover that says "Delete", "Edit" .  Very surprised that this was not built into the Kendo UI.