// configuration 
$("#txtNetWorth").kendoNumericTextBox(
    { min: 0, max: 999999999999, 
    decimals: 0, format: 'c0', 
    spinners: false 
    });

// highlight the value 
$(function () {
    $("input").kendoNumericTextBox();

    //wire focus of all numerictextbox widgets on the page
    $("input[type=text]").on("focus", function () {
      var input = $(this);
      // clear all of the time
      clearTimeout(input.data("selectTimeId")); //stop started time out if any
      // returned timeoutID is a numeric, non-zero value 
      // which identifies the timer created by the call to setTimeout(); 
       var selectTimeId = setTimeout(function()  {
       // select the text
       input.select();
     });
      // store the timeoutID to a data attribute. 
      input.data("selectTimeId", selectTimeId);
      // clean time out 
      //stop started timeout when lose focus
    }).blur(function(e) {

     clearTimeout($(this).data("selectTimeId")); 
   });
})