Hi Aparna,
I made a mistake, please accept my apology for the inconvenience caused.
Actually the data-text-field and data-value-field are supposed to work with <select> elements. Here is a short example that demonstrates the implementation of such scenario:
The values will be still stored as objects, but you can retrieve the value (or text) field through a function.
Regards,
Alexander Valchev
the Telerik team
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