Bug report

Reproduction of the problem

Compare the renderings of the two ContextMenus below:

<div id="example1">Right click (Kendo UI ContextMenu)</div>
<br />
<br />
<div id="example2">Right click (MVC ContextMenu)</div>

<ul id="contextmenu1">
</ul>
<script>
    $("#contextmenu1").kendoContextMenu({
        target: "#example1",
        dataSource:
            [{
                text: "Item1",
            },
            {
                text: "Item2",
            }
        ]
    });
</script>


@(Html.Kendo().ContextMenu()
    .Name("contextmenu2")
    .Target("#example2")
    .Items(items =>
    {
        items.Add().Text("Item1");
        items.Add().Text("Item2");
    })
)

Current behavior

The item of the Kendo UI ContextMenu is rendered:

<li class="k-item k-menu-item k-first" role="menuitem" data-uid="d578b533-6933-416f-9624-96819ee95c45" aria-expanded="false">
    <span class="k-link k-menu-link">
       <span class="k-menu-link-text">Item1</span>
    </span>
</li>

The item of the MVC ContextMenu is rendered:

<li class="k-item k-state-default k-menu-item k-first" role="menuitem" aria-expanded="false" id="contextmenu2_mn_active">
     <span class="k-link k-menu-link">Item1</span>
</li>

The additional span with class k-menu-link-text is missing in the MVC component.

Expected/desired behavior

Identical rendering

Environment

• Kendo UI version: 2023.1.117
• jQuery version: x.y
• Browser: [all]

Hello,

I have problem with menu control. Sometimes its items are duplicated. To reproduce it do the following: 

- create a menu control;

- bind it to remote data source (to reproduce issue easier set some delay for server side method);

- hover on menu item (datasource request will start), fast leave menu item (don't wait until it open) and hover again (one more datasource request will start), leave it again (optional);

- wait some time until second request completed;

- open menu item.

As a result you will see duplicated menu items. This issue can be reproduced on your demo page https://demos.telerik.com/kendo-ui/menu/remote-data-binding.

Could you please suggest me some workaround for this?

BR,

Artsem