title: Setting Background Color on Kendo Combobox Wipes Out Bindings
body: <p>We're trying to set the background color on a Kendo combobox. However, setting the color appears to also wipe out the data bindings. In the <a href="http://jsfiddle.net/LeeMellinger/fmovrgso/4/" rel="nofollow">jsfiddle</a> example below the background of the second combobox (cb2) is set but has no items.</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://jsfiddle.net/LeeMellinger/fmovrgso/4/" rel="nofollow">JsFiddle</a></p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;div id="example"&gt;
      &lt;input id="cb1" class="combobox" /&gt;
      &lt;input id="cb2" class="combobox" /&gt;
      &lt;input id="cb3" class="combobox" /&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;
  
  
  var viewModel = kendo.observable({
      allowCustomValues: false,
      testData: new kendo.data.DataSource({
          data: [{
              id: 1,
              name: 'BMW'
          }, {
              id: 2,
              name: 'Audi'
          }, {
              id: 3,
              name: 'Ferrari'
          }]
      })
  });
  
  $('.combobox').kendoComboBox({
      dataSource: viewModel.testData,
      autoBind: false,
      dataTextField: 'name',
      dataValueField: 'id',
      suggest: true,
      placeholder: 'Select a car'
  });
  
  kendo.bind('#example', viewModel);
  
  // ******************************************
  // SET BACKGROUND COLOR
  // ******************************************
  var cb = $("#cb2").kendoComboBox().data("kendoComboBox");
  cb.wrapper.find(".k-input").css("background", "#FFFFE0");
  
  //ddl.input.css("background", propertyValue);
  </code></pre>