JSFiddle - React, Tailwind, and code Playground
HTML
<link href="http://cdn.kendostatic.com/2013.1.319/styles/kendo.common.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
<link href="http://cdn.kendostatic.com/2013.1.319/styles/kendo.default.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7.1.min.js"></script>
<script src="http://cdn.kendostatic.com/2013.1.319/js/kendo.all.min.js"></script>
<div id="tabstrip">
</div>
JavaScript
var data = [
{'label': 'Tab 1', partial: 'http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7.1.min.js'},
{label: 'Tab 2', partial: 'http://cdn.kendostatic.com/2013.1.319/styles/kendo.common.min.css'},
{label: 'Tab 3', partial: 'http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7.1.min.js'},
{label: 'Tab 4', partial: 'http://cdn.kendostatic.com/2013.1.319/styles/kendo.common.min.css'}
];
var tabstrip = $("#tabstrip").kendoTabStrip({
dataSource: data,
dataTextField: "label",
dataContentUrlField: "partial",
animation: {open: {effects: 'fadeIn'}}
}).data('kendoTabStrip');
tabstrip.select(1);