title: how to get the value of a kendoui dropdown list selected value in a listview
body: <p>am having Some kendoui listviews which consists of kendoui dropdown lists and i want to get those dropdown list selected values. To do this am trying,</p>
  
  <pre><code> $("#cnty1").val();
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and here is my dropdownlist,i.e., list of countries coming from Database table,</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;input select STYLE="width:90px;height:auto" id ="cnty1" data-bind="value:cnty1" 
  name="cnty1" data-type="string" data-text-field="cnty" 
  data-value-field="cntyid" data-source="sourcedata1" class="k-d"   
  data-role="dropdownlist" /&gt;
  
  &lt;span data-for="cnty1" class="k-invalid-msg"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>here cnty1 is the id of the dropdown list, but am not getting the value instead am getting "id" of the slected value but not the selected value.</p>
  
  <p>And also if the value is not selected am getting the first value id by using <code>$("#cnty1").val();</code></p>
  
  <p>So, please suggest me a solution so that,
  1) I should get only the Selected value and 
  2) Value of the dropdown list Only if the user selects a value from the list, but don't get the value of the list without selecting. </p>