title: How to set the tree view node color for Kendo UI TreeView?
body: <p>I want to set the tree view color based on the value defined in the datasource field, </p>
  
  <p>From this link, I think that what I am trying to do is possible, but I am not using MVVM, so in my case what I am missing below? any idea??</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://www.telerik.com/forums/mvvm---treeview-only-updates-on-datatextfield-change" rel="nofollow">http://www.telerik.com/forums/mvvm---treeview-only-updates-on-datatextfield-change</a> </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;div id="treeview"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  
  $("#treeview").kendoTreeView({
    template: "#= item.text # color:#: item.color #",
    dataSource: [
      { text: "green", color: "green", items: [
        { text: "yellow", color: "yellow" },
        { text: "red", color: "red" }
      ]},{
      text: "blue", color: "blue"
      }
    ]
  });
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Fiddle link, <a href="http://jsfiddle.net/KendoDev/qZeK6/" rel="nofollow">http://jsfiddle.net/KendoDev/qZeK6/</a></p>