title: How to : validation summary for kendo Ui dropdownlist
body: <p>I am currently trying to implement validation summary for my Kendo UI DropDownList when user click btnSubmit. If user selects "Please select" then the validation summary will display error in validation summary said "Please select Product List".</p>
  
  <p>I am unsure how can I do this. Please advise</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
   $("#btnSubmit").click(function () {
  
          var pList= $("#ProductList").data("kendoDropDownList").select();
  
      });
  &lt;/script&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Index.cshtml </p>
  
  <pre><code>@(Html.Kendo().DropDownList()
                          .Name("ProductList")
                          .HtmlAttributes(new { @Style = "width: 130px; margin:0.5em 0 0 0;height:20px;align:center; font-size:11px;" })
                          .OptionLabel("Please Select")
                          .DataTextField("OptionName")
                          .DataValueField("OptionID")
                          .DataSource(source =&gt;
                          {
                              source.Read(read =&gt;
                              {
                                  read.Action("GetProduct", "ProductDetails");
                              });
                          })
  
                  )
  
  
  
  
  &lt;div class="submit"&gt;
              &lt;input type="button" id="btnSubmit" style="height:50px; width:95px; font-size:13px; background-color: rgb(51, 153, 255); white-space: normal;"  class="k-button" title="Submit" value="Submit" /&gt;
  
  
          &lt;/div&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>ProductDetailsController.cs</p>
  
  <pre><code>public JsonResult GetRole()
              {
                  var productName = new ContexEntities();
  
                  return Json(productName.Product.Select(c =&gt; new { OptionID = c.OptionID, OptionName = c.OptionName, OptionTypeID = c.ConfigTypeID })
                      .OrderBy(c =&gt; c.OptionName).Where(e =&gt; e.OptionTypeID == 10), JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);
  
  
              }
  </code></pre>