Hello,
If my understanding is correct your intent is to change the header color of the subgrid only. This could be achieved with the following CSS styles:
<style> .k-grid-content table thead tr th { background-color: red; }</style>For convenience here is a basic example.
Regards,
Plamen Lazarov
Telerik
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