Disable kendo dropdown list Keyboard navigation

Question

I want to disable kendo drop down list Keyboard navigation which is the default behavior:

DropDownList / Keyboard navigation

In my specific case I have a drop down inside editable grid and I want to disable changing the highlights next/previous item when pressing the left/right arrows because I am using these to do another behavior (change focus to next column)

Answer 1

I got the answer

It seems that the secret is in turning off the keydown event on dropdown first:

.off("keydown")

here is a working code in Code Pen where I disabled right and left arrows and enabled other keys: http://codepen.io/MohQut/pen/vEKBvz