How to draw a sparkline inside a kendo template?

I have

<script type="text/x-kendo-template" id="items-template">
<div id='sparklineItemlist'> </div>

</script>

in my java-script i have

function loadSparkline(ItemSN){

   console.log('spark line loaded ' + document.getElementById('sparklineItemlist'));

     $("#sparklineItemlist") .sparkline([5,2,5,3,2,2,4,2,4,6,7,5,6,7,9,6,7,9,9,5,3,9,6,7  ], {
                                   type: 'line',
                                fillColor: null });

}

console.log('spark line loaded ' + document.getElementById('sparklineItemlist')) returns null and I cannot seem to access the spark line Item list div. How can I show the spark line?