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

In order to get text value of a DropDownList use command as below :

$("#ddl").data("kendoDropDownList").text();