I needed to do the same thing and after some research found out in the Kendo UI documentation the following solution: - hook to the legendItemClick and legendItemHover events of the chart - in the handler call e.preventDefault();
Here is the code I used (MVVM-style):
In HTML:
data-bind="events: { legendItemClick: disableEvent, legendItemHover: disableEvent } "
In the ViewModel:
disableEvent: function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
}
Here is the article - http://docs.telerik.com/kendo-ui/api/dataviz/chart