Combobox Events

HTML

<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://cdn.kendostatic.com/2013.2.918/styles/kendo.common.min.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://cdn.kendostatic.com/2013.2.918/styles/kendo.default.min.css">
<script src="http://cdn.kendostatic.com/2013.2.918/js/kendo.all.min.js"></script>
<br/>
<input id="customer_id" /><br/>
<br/>
<input id="customer" placeholder="Select..." />

JavaScript

$(document).ready(function() {
    $("#customer").kendoComboBox({
        dataTextField: "text",
        dataValueField: "value",
        dataSource: [
            { text: "Customer1", value: "1" },
            { text: "Customer2", value: "2" },
            { text: "Customer3", value: "3" },
            { text: "Customer4", value: "4" }
        ],
        filter: "contains",
        suggest: true,
        change: onChange
    });
});

function onChange() {
    $("#customer_id").val(this.value()).trigger("change");   
}

$('#customer_id').focusout(function () {
    var $elem = $("#customer").data("kendoComboBox");
    $elem.value("");
    $elem.dataSource.read();
    $elem.value($(this).val());
    $elem.trigger("change");
});