Html.EditorFor and custom format

Question

I got a property in my model which is a DateTime . I would like to get an empty <input /> (instead of one containing '0001-01-01 00:00:00') if the property contains DateTime.MinValue.

Is that possible?

Answer 1

One solution I've found working for me was to add strongly typed partial view (for System.DateTime) and put it in Views/Shared/EditorTemplates directory. File DateTime.cshtml looks pretty much like this:

@model System.DateTime
@Html.TextBox("", Model == DateTime.MinValue ? "" : Model.ToShortDateString())

This will however format all your DateTime fields.

More information can be found in this article.