How to Get Dropdown's Selected Item's text in Kendo UI?

Question

I am using Kendo UI Controls. I want to get the selected text of the dropdown list in jquery. I have used this syntax :

 $(\"#ddl\").data(\"kendoDropDownList\")         


        

Answer 1

You can try like this

 var ddl= $("#ddl").data("kendoDropDownList").dataItem($("#ddl").data("kendoDropDownList").select()).FieldName;
//FieldName is the text field of DataSource ---  .DataTextField("FieldName")