beforeOpen

Fires before the ModalView is shown. calling preventDefault on the event argument will cancel the open.

    <div data-role="view">
        Foo
    </div>


    <div data-role="modalview" id="foo" data-before-open="preventOpen">
        Foo
    </div>

    <script>
    function preventOpen(e) {
        e.preventDefault();
    /* The result can be observed in the DevTools(F12) console of the browser. */
        console.log(e.target); // <a href="#foo" ...
    }

    new kendo.mobile.Application();
    </script>

Event Data

e.target jQuery

The invocation target of the ModalView.