It would be very helpful it there is an option to hide spin controls on numeric controls. Spin control are not really useful in all cases. Also setting readonly property for the control has no effect on the spin control you can still update the value by clicking the spinner. Currently in the forum a workaround was suggested using css (http://jsfiddle.net/krustev/uZUjK/). Implement this as a property for the numeric control
There's a spinners option (http://docs.telerik.com/kendo-ui/api/javascript/ui/numerictextbox#configuration-spinners) from the API of the NumericTextBox which allows you to specify whether the spinners should be rendered or not. Hence you can control their visibility via this setting.
Yes, we need to be able to easily turn off the spinner controls. For one, with fixed-width columns like we like to keep, it makes editing a small integer field impossible to see the number or even the entire spinner control, itself.
Spinners just don't make sense for non integer numbers, so it should be easy to get rid of them.
Here is the link to jsFiddle http://jsfiddle.net/krustev/uZUjK/ I got this from this this kendo forum thread http://www.kendoui.com/forums/ui/numeric-textbox/readonly.aspx
The jsFiddle link is broken. Could you correct and post a comment here.