Remove hyperlink from Kendo UI MVC Grid export - kendo-ui

Question

Does anyone know of a way to remove hyperlinks in the file generated from Kendo UI grid export to PDF and Excel functionality?
I have customised the export a fair amount and removed the pager bar etc, using CSS.
However I cannot work out how to stop the column headers from being hyperlinks.
I have tried setting the
pointer-events: none;
cursor: default;
but that didn't help and I am trying to avoid using javascript to remove it where possible.
UPDATE
Please see below an edited version of my grid code.
#(Html.Kendo().Grid<MvcProject.Domain.DTO.Reports.AccidentSummary>()
.Name("resultsGrid")
.Columns(columns =>
{
columns.Group(group => group
.Title("Accident Summary Report : Date run - " + DateTime.Now.ToShortDateString() )
.Columns(header => {
header.Bound(c => c.DocCount)
.HtmlAttributes(new { style = "text-align: center;" })
.Title(" ")
.ClientTemplate("<div><i rel='tooltip' title='Documents Attached' #= DocCount > 0 ? classHasFile : '' #></i></div>")
.Width(35).Filterable(false).Sortable(false).Groupable(false).IncludeInMenu(false);
header.Bound(c => c.RegionName)
.Title("Region")
.Width(100);
header.Bound(c => c.AreaName)
.Title("Area")
.Width(200);
header.Bound(c => c.Date_of_Accident)
.Title("Date")
.Width(120)
.Format("{0:dd/MM/yyyy}");
header.Bound(c => c.Days_Lost)
.Title("Days Lost")
.HtmlAttributes(new { style = "text-align: center;" })
.Width(120);
header.Bound(c => c.TypeOfAccidentName)
.Title("Nature ")
.Width(150);
header.Bound(c => c.Location_of_Accident)
.Title("Location Of Accident")
.Width(150).Hidden(true);
header.Bound(c => c.Comments)
.Title("Comments")
.Width(250).Hidden(true);
})
);
})
.HtmlAttributes(new { style = "height: 900px;" })
.Pageable(p => p
.ButtonCount(5)
.PageSizes(true)
.Refresh(true)
)
.Scrollable(s => s.Height("auto"))
.Sortable()
.Filterable()
.Groupable()
.ColumnMenu()
.Resizable(r => r
.Columns(true)
)
.Excel(excel => excel
.FileName("Accident Summary.xlsx")
.Filterable(true)
.ProxyURL(Url.Action("_GridExportSave", "Reports"))
.AllPages(true)
)
.DataSource(d => d
.Ajax()
.Read(read => read.Action("_AccidentSummaryResults_Read", "Reports").Data("Genesis.Reports.HandS.Search.getPaginationData"))
.ServerOperation(true)
.PageSize(20)
)
.ToolBar(tools =>
{
tools.Pdf();
tools.Excel();
})
//PDF removed for now until it is patched
.Pdf(pdf => pdf
.AllPages()
.FileName("AccidentSummary.pdf")
.ProxyURL(Url.Action("_GridExportSave", "Reports"))
)
.Events(events => events.DataBound("Genesis.Reports.HandS.Search.loadTT"))
)

Answer 1

Try
<style>
.k-pdf-export .k-grid-toolbar,
.k-pdf-export .k-pager-wrap
{
display: none;
}
</style>
or
<style>
.k-grid-toolbar,
.k-grid-pager > .k-link
{
display: none;
}
</style>

Answer 2

Use pdf.avoidLinks(true) to skip the actual hyperlinks.
pdf.avoidLinks indicates whether to produce actual hyperlinks in the exported PDF file.
pdf.avoidLinks default value is false.
.Pdf(pdf => pdf
.AllPages()
.FileName("AccidentSummary.pdf")
.avoidLinks(true)
.ProxyURL(Url.Action("_GridExportSave", "Reports"))
)
Note: Available in versions 2015.3.1020 and later
For reference

Answer 3

With following you can easily hide excel export button from MVC Kendo Grid
$(".k-grid-excel").hide();