title: Can you disable selection for specific cells or columns in KendoUI Grid?
body: <p>The multi-select seems pretty good in KendoUI Grid, but it doesn't appear to support row headers or excluding ranges.</p>
  
  <p>e.g. I want to <strong>not</strong> be able to select the highlighted cells shown below (e.g. I want to turn them into row headers):
  <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Sfla4.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>Answer in JQuery/Javascript or server-side C# Razor syntax preferred.</p>
  
  <h2>Update based on answer below:</h2>
  
  <p>Based on lgorrious' suggestion below, I added this to the KendoGrid options:</p>
  
  <pre><code>dataBound: function() {
      $('#grid tr td:first-child').addClass('k-group-cell');
  },
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>which does the trick by fooling the grid into ignoring the first column (thinking it is a grouping level cell in a hierarchical grid). </p>
  
  <p><em>I could not use the answer as-is as I am using a dataSource for the columns as they vary dynamically, but it lead me straight to a simple solution</em></p>