Angular-Kendo ComboBox placeholder text not working

Question

I have a simple angular-kendo ComboBox on a page without an initially selected value. It should show the placeholder text in that case, but instead it\'s showing ? un

Answer 1

This is somewhat related to this issue: https://github.com/angular/angular.js/issues/1019

The solution is simple: use an instead of a element:

app.controller('MyCtrl', function($scope) { $scope.projectData = [ {name: 'Bob', value: 1}, {name: 'Tom', value: 2} ]; $scope.projectOptions = { placeholder: "'Select...'", dataTextField: 'name', dataValueField: 'value', dataSource: { data: $scope.projectData } } });

(demo)