How to use Html.TextBoxFor with input type=date? [duplicate]

Question

I want to implement in my code. To that end, I have the following:

@Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.CreationDate, new { @type = "date" }) 

This code generates the following HTML:

<input data-val="true" data-val-date="The field CreationDate must be a date."               data-val-required="The CreationDate field is required."               id="CreationDate" name="CreationDate" type="date"               value="09/05/2012 15:02:19"> 

The value does not show up on the web page because type="date" expects data in YYYY-MM-DD format.

I've tried formatting the date, but that blows up, of course.

@Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.CreationDate.ToString("YYYY-MM-DD"),                   new { @type = "date" }) 

How do I use TextBoxFor method to properly display the construct? Or should I be using some other method (I already tried EditorFor but failed)?

CreationDate is of type DateTime.

Answer 1

Try this;

@Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.CreationDate,            new { @type = "date", @Value = Model.CreationDate.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd") }) 

You have to handle null when setting the value.

OR

If you can change the Model you can try this;

[DataType(DataType.Date)] [DisplayFormat(DataFormatString = "{0:yyyy-MM-dd}", ApplyFormatInEditMode = true)] public DateTime CreationDate{ get; set; } 

and in your view you can use EditorFor helper.

@Html.EditorFor(model => model.CreationDate, new { @type = "date" })