title: Kendo optionLabel for drop down not working correctly
body: <pre><code>Below is the kendo code for drop down control.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am trying to display "Please select" option .This exact code works for all drop downs except this one.
  option displays as part of the drop down list but not when the drop down loads first., Please help as i also tried closing and opening Visual studio and deleting history in browser too.</p>
  
  <pre><code>        function getRC(rcid) {
      for (var i = 0; i &lt; ddRCpicklist.length; i++) {
          if (ddRCpicklist[i].rcID === rcid) {
              return ddRCpicklist[i].RootCause;
          }
      }
      return 'No value matched';
  }
  
  function RootCauseDropDownEditor(container, options) {
      if (options.model.Name !== null) {
        var ddRC=  $('&lt;input id="ddRootCause" required data-text-field="RootCause" data-value-field="rcID"  data-change="ddRootCauseSelect" data-bind="value:' + options.field + '"/&gt;')
                          .appendTo(container)
                          .kendoDropDownList({
                              index:0,
                              autoBind: false,
                              dataSource: { data: ddRCpicklist },
                              optionLabel: "--Please Select--"
                          }).data("kendoDropDownList");
                      }
       }
  
  function ddRootCauseSelect(e) {
      ddValRootCause = $("#ddRootCause").val();
      alert(ddValRootCause);
  }
  </code></pre>