Potential workaround at http://jsfiddle.net/zacharydl/8j4SB/

This is an essential piece of functionality as far as I'm concerned. There is often the requirement to specify a slight (or not so slight) offset from the default.

@Jeremy 1000% ...it's like the widget is out the door with no feedback so there's no reason to go back and enhance it with something that should have always been there.

I don't understand why this wouldn't be something kendo would have added from the start. As it is now the tooltip buts up just against the div, which feels extremely close to me. And like some commenters have said it's almost impossible to target the tooltips with CSS because the classes given are too generic. Please please please add this soon!

I've just registered, my comment is the Anonymous comment above, just want to put a name to it.

Was I drunk on the initial text...makes no sense

...I think you see what I was getting at though :)

Please add this, appending a class to the root div can also give us some control of its position.  Mouse over -> mouse to tooltip is pretty bad right now as far as the required dexterity to get to it, you have to get lucky.

We are using a negative margin to get around this for now. (margin-left: -30px), the drawback is that now every tooltip we have in our app will have this offset, no matter if its top/bottom/left/right