<input id="color" placeholder="Select Color..." />

<link href="@Url.Content("~/Content/kendo/2014.1.318/kendo.common.min.css")" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

<link href="@Url.Content("~/Content/kendo/2014.1.318/kendo.default.min.css")" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

<script src="@Url.Content("~/Scripts/kendo/2014.1.318/jquery.min.js")" type="text/javascript"></script>

<script src="@Url.Content("~/Scripts/kendo/2014.1.318/kendo.web.min.js")" type="text/javascript"></script>

<script type="text/javascript">

    $(function () {

        $("#color").kendoComboBox({

            dataTextField: "text",

            dataValueField: "value",

            dataSource: [

                { text: "Black", value: "1" },

                { text: "Orange", value: "2" },

                { text: "White", value: "3" }

            ],

            filter: "contains" // 包括：eq,neq,gt,gte,lt,lte,startswith,endswith,contains,doesnotcontain

            //index: 1 // 默认选中项索引，索引从0开始。

        });

    });

</script>

var color = $("#color").data("kendoComboBox");

color.select(1); // 设置初始化时选中项，索引从0开始。

var color = $("#color").data("kendoComboBox");

color.value(); 

var color = $("#color").data("kendoComboBox");

color.text();