Unable to show text along side a drop down in bootstrap knockout webpage

Answer 1

Your problem has nothing to do with Knockout:

you have self-closed your select tag which results in invalid HTML so the browser interprets your span as the content of the select.

To fix this just properly close your select with </select>:

<tr>
    <td data-bind="i18nTranslateText: 'abc'"></td>
    <td>
        <select style="width: auto;" data-bind="options: pqr, value: abc.xyz" >
        </select>
        <span data-bind="i18nTranslateText: 'Minutes'"></span>
    </td>
</tr>