Date only from TextBoxFor()

TL;DR;

@Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.DOB,"{0:yyyy-MM-dd}", new { type = "date" })

Applying [DisplayFormat(ApplyFormatInEditMode = true, DataFormatString = "{0:yyyy-MM-dd}")] didn't work out for me!

Explanation:

The date of an html input element of type date must be formatted in respect to ISO8601, which is: yyyy-MM-dd

The displayed date is formatted based on the locale of the user's browser, but the parsed value is always formatted yyyy-mm-dd.

My experience is, that the language is not determined by the Accept-Language header, but by either the browser display language or OS system language.

In order to display a date property of your model using Html.TextBoxFor:

Date property of your model class:

public DateTime DOB { get; set; }

Nothing else is needed on the model side.

In Razor you do:

@Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.DOB,"{0:yyyy-MM-dd}", new { type = "date" })

Don't be afraid of using raw HTML.

<input type="text" value="<%= Html.Encode(Model.SomeDate.ToShortDateString()) %>" />

I use Globalize so work with many date formats so use the following:

@Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.DateOfBirth, "{0:d}")

This will automatically adjust the date format to the browser's locale settings.

Keep in mind that display will depend on culture. And while in most cases all other answers are correct, it did not work for me. Culture issue will also cause different problems with jQuery datepicker, if attached.

If you wish to force the format escape / in the following manner:

@Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.dtArrivalDate, "{0:MM\\/dd\\/yyyy}")

If not escaped for me it show 08-01-2010 vs. expected 08/01/2010.

Also if not escaped jQuery datepicker will select different defaultDate, in my instance it was May 10, 2012.

The DisplayFormat attribute did not work for me in either form upon initial load. I created an EditorTemplate instead:

<%@ Control Language="C#" Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewUserControl<System.DateTime>" %>
<%@ Import Namespace="System.Web.Mvc.Html" %>
<%=
    Html.TextBox("", Model.ToShortDateString(), new { @class = "date-range" }) %>

The Template Editor will work for display purposes only. If you use the same editor (which makes sense because its an editor) and you supplied a value like 31/01/2010 - you'll get an error message saying the format is invalid.

You can use below code to print time in HH:mm format, In my case Property type is TimeSpan So the value is coming in HH:mm:tt format but I have to show in above format ie. HH:mm

So you can use this code:

@Html.TextBoxFor(x =>x.mTimeFrom, null, new {@Value =Model.mTimeFrom.ToString().Substring(0,5), @class = "form-control success" })

If you insist on using the [DisplayFormat], but you are not using MVC4, you can use this:

@Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.EndDate, new { Value = @Html.DisplayFor(m=>m.EndDate), @class="datepicker" })

net Razor problems DateTime


Models
public class UsuarioFecha
{
       [DataType(DataType.DateTime)]
        [DisplayFormat(DataFormatString = "{0:yyyy/MM/dd}", ApplyFormatInEditMode = true)]
        public DateTime? dateXXX { get; set; }
}

view

@model proyect.Models.UsuarioFecha

   @Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.dateXXX , new { Value = @Html.DisplayFor(m => m.dateXXX ), @class = "form-control", @type = "date" })