TelerikDropDownList - material theme floating label behavior like TelerikTextBox?

[Brent]

This doesn't seem to be available by default?

please advise on the usual... roadmap, places to upvote, temp workarounds, etc

my initial rough workaround is some fairly manageable styling along these lines...

<style>
    .k-dropdown {
        padding-top: 1.03125em;
    }

        .k-dropdown::after {
            content: "Gender";
            color: rgba(0,0,0,0.6);
            position: absolute;
            margin-top: 0.5em;
            transition: transform 0.4s cubic-bezier(0.25, 0.8, 0.25, 1), color 0.4s cubic-bezier(0.25, 0.8, 0.25, 1);
        }

        .k-dropdown.k-state-focused::after, .k-dropdown:not(.k-state-empty)::after {
            transform: translate(-0.4em, -1.5em) scale(.75) ;
        }

        .k-dropdown.k-state-focused::after {
            color: #3f51b5;
        }

</style>

[Svetoslav Dimitrov]

Hello Brent,

You can upvote and Follow the implementation of adding labels to all our components from this Feature Request on our public Feedback Portal. I have already given your Vote for it and you can Follow it for email notifications on status updates. 

Regards,
Svetoslav Dimitrov
Progress Telerik