There are several other suggestions along these lines, but in general, Telerik needs to make their data input controls more consistent in the implementation of a "Label" property. Without such consistencies, it makes including controls that have this property and those that don't together on the same page much more difficult. As of the writing of this, the DropDownList and DatePicker controls do not have a Label property. There is no apparent reason why this should be so. All of the input controls should have this property. Related requests: http://feedback.telerik.com/Project/108/Feedback/Details/149658-add-built-in-label-to-control http://feedback.telerik.com/Project/108/Feedback/Details/66117-add-label-property-to-ajax-raddatepicker Related annoyed forum thread about the omission of this property in the DropdownList control: http://www.telerik.com/forums/dropdownlist-label#TI3zWYeMFESXjPIY_bYjZg