Change selected value of kendo ui dropdownlist

Question

I have a kendo ui dropdownlist in my view:

$(\"#Instrument\").kendoDropDownList({
    dataTextField: \"symbol\",
    dataValueField: \"symbol\",
    dataSour         


        

Answer 1

Seems there's an easier way, at least in Kendo UI v2015.2.624:

$('#myDropDownSelector').data('kendoDropDownList').search('Text value to find');

If there's not a match in the dropdown, Kendo appears to set the dropdown to an unselected value, which makes sense.

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I couldn't get @Gang's answer to work, but if you swap his value with search, as above, we're golden.