Grid difference in header rendering compared to the Kendo UI Grid

[IvanDanchev]

Bug report

Reproduction of the problem

Reproducible in the demos: https://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-mvc/grid/persist-state

1. Inspect the rendering of the "Contact Name" header in the MVC and Kendo UI for jQuery demos.

Current behavior

The difference in the rendering is shown below. In the Kendo UI Grid's Html, there is a span with class "k-cell-inner" that wraps the ".k-link" span, whereas in the MVC Grid, only an anchor is rendered.

Kendo UI:

<th scope="col" role="columnheader" data-field="ContactName" aria-haspopup="true" rowspan="1" data-title="Contact Name" aria-label="Contact Name Press ctrl + space to group" data-index="0" id="a44eadd9-62c6-4154-9735-4351a9cb5064" class="k-header k-filterable" data-role="columnsorter" style="touch-action: none;">
  <span class="k-cell-inner">
    <span class="k-link">
      <span class="k-column-title">Contact Name</span>
    </span>
    <a class="k-header-column-menu" href="#" title="Contact Name edit column settings" aria-label="Contact Name edit column settings" tabindex="-1">
      <span class="k-icon k-i-more-vertical"></span>
    </a>
  </span>
</th>

MVC:

<th class="k-header k-filterable" data-field="ContactName" data-index="0" data-title="Contact Name" id="f28afe50-210a-474d-9943-113f6bd4ad15" scope="col" data-role="columnsorter" style="touch-action: none;">
  <a class="k-link" href="/aspnet-mvc/grid/persiststate_customers_read?grid-sort=ContactName-asc">Contact Name</a>
  <a class="k-header-column-menu" href="#" title="Contact Name edit column settings" aria-label="Contact Name edit column settings" tabindex="-1">
    <span class="k-icon k-i-more-vertical"></span>
  </a>
</th>

Expected/desired behavior

Identical rendering.

Environment

• Kendo UI version: 2022.2.802
• jQuery version: x.y
• Browser: [all ]