Kendo UI Starter Template
An empty fiddle with the latest Kendo UI CSS and JS references.
HTML
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://cdn.kendostatic.com/2014.1.318/styles/kendo.common.min.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://cdn.kendostatic.com/2014.1.318/styles/kendo.default.min.css">
<script src="http://cdn.kendostatic.com/2014.1.318/js/kendo.all.min.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://cdn.kendostatic.com/2014.1.318/styles/kendo.rtl.min.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://cdn.kendostatic.com/2014.1.318/styles/kendo.dataviz.min.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://cdn.kendostatic.com/2014.1.318/styles/kendo.dataviz.default.min.css">
<div id="example"></div>
JavaScript
var template = kendo.template("<div id='box'>#= firstName #</div>");
var data = { firstName: "<b>Todd'\" & " " " </b>" }; //Data with HTML tags
var result = template(data); //Pass the data to the compiled template
$("#example").html(result); // display the following string result ("<b>Todd</b>")