Need to have date mask depending on the culture in jquery

Question

MVC pages with culture depending on the user. In Search option (search can be done by DueDate), I need to have a mask on that DueDate text box. Mask must be dependant on the user's culture. In both js and cshtml have an error saying: mask.split is not a function. Changed my jquery.maskedinput-1.2.3.js from make.split to make.toString().split and the error is gone, but must looks like this: [object Object] or has some 01 numbers. Any idea? Code in cshtml looks like this:

   <script type="text/javascript">
    $(function () {
        var maskFormat = @Html.CurrentDateMask();
        $(".DateBox").mask(maskFormat);
    });
   </script>

Answer 1

you could have maskFormat as a global variable (put it in the window object) and then refer it to window.maskFormat inside your JS file:

cshtml file:

(function () {
    window.maskFormat = "@Html.CurrentDateMask();";
})();

and in your Javascript file:

$(function(){
    $(".DateBox").mask(window.maskFormat);
});

but be careful so you don´t add to many global variables or with a name thats easy to overwrite