Hello Hitesh,
Straight to your questions:
1. There is a restriction only that columns.field should be a valid Javascript identifier and should contain no spaces, no special characters, and the first character should be a letter.
2. There is a style applied to the td elements (using the .k-grid td selector) with line-height: 1.6em; If you use higher specificity you can apply your own line height value in order to override the default one.
Regards,
Boyan Dimitrov
Telerik
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