MVC 4 Razor adding input type date

Question

I'm wondering how to insert a <input type="date"/> for datetime attributes of my model. As for now Razor creates a plain input element with type="datetime". I want to make use of the new input types of HTML5.

Answer 1

I managed to do it by using the following code.

@Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.EndTime, new { type = "time" })

Answer 2

The input date value format needs the date specified as per http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3339#section-5.6 full-date.

So I've ended up doing:

<input type="date" id="last-start-date" value="@string.Format("{0:yyyy-MM-dd}", Model.LastStartDate)" />

I did try doing it "properly" using:

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

with

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

Unfortunately that always seemed to set the value attribute of the input to a standard date time so I've ended up applying the formatting directly as above.

Edit:

According to Jorn if you use

@Html.EditorFor(model => model.LastStartDate)

instead of TextBoxFor it all works fine.

Answer 3

You will get it by tag type="date"...then it will render beautiful calendar and all...

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

Answer 4

 @Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.EntryDate, new{ type = "date" })

 or type = "time"

 it will display a calendar
 it will not work if you give @Html.EditorFor()

Answer 5

If you want to use @Html.EditorFor() you have to use jQuery ui and update your Asp.net Mvc to 5.2.6.0 with NuGet Package Manager.

@Html.EditorFor(m => m.EntryDate, new { htmlAttributes = new { @class = "datepicker" } })

@section Scripts {

@Scripts.Render("~/bundles/jqueryval")

<script>

    $(document).ready(function(){

      $('.datepicker').datepicker();

     });

</script>

}