Kendo UI Datepicker disable typing

Use the control as below-

@(Html.Kendo().DatePicker()
.Name("FromDate")
.HtmlAttributes(onkeydown="javascript:return false;" })
      )

It will disable keyboard typing. Same way other conditions also can be handled.

On your input element add this attribute and value...

onkeydown="return false;"

This will disable typed input and still allow using the calendar control input.

you can do it by two ways

  //disable kendo ui  datapicker click event
    $(".k-datepicker input").bind('click dblclick',function () {
         return false;
    });

    //make it readonly
   $(".k-datepicker input").prop("readonly", true);

Find your input element, and disable it

$('#datepicker').attr('disabled','disabled');

( tried it on the kendo demo website http://demos.kendoui.com/web/datepicker/index.html )