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

The Simplest way to do this is:

$("#Instrument").data('kendoDropDownList').value("A value");

Here is the JSFiddle example.