How to Display Selected Item in Bootstrap Button Dropdown Title

As far as i understood your issue is that you want to change the text of the button with the clicking linked text, if so you can try this one: http://jsbin.com/owuyix/4/edit

 $(function(){

    $(".dropdown-menu li a").click(function(){

      $(".btn:first-child").text($(this).text());
      $(".btn:first-child").val($(this).text());

   });

});

As per your comment:

this doesn’t work for me when I have lists item <li> populated through ajax call.

so you have to delegate the event to the closest static parent with .on() jQuery method:

 $(function(){

    $(".dropdown-menu").on('click', 'li a', function(){
      $(".btn:first-child").text($(this).text());
      $(".btn:first-child").val($(this).text());
   });

});

Here event is delegated to static parent $(".dropdown-menu"), although you can delegate the event to the $(document) too because it is always available.