@Html.DisplayFor - DateFormat (“mm/dd/yyyy”)

Anonymous User 16814 15 Apr 2015

I have the following razor code that I want to have mm/dd/yyyy date format:

Audit Date: @Html.DisplayFor(Model => Model.AuditDate)

I have tried number of different approaches but none of that approaches works in my situation

my AuditDate is a DateTime? type

I have tried something like this and got this error:

@Html.DisplayFor(Model => Model.AuditDate.Value.ToShortDateString())

Additional information: Templates can be used only with field access, property access, single-dimension array index, or single-parameter custom indexer expressions.

Tried this:

@Html.DisplayFor(Model => Model.AuditDate.ToString("mm/dd/yyyy"))

No overload for method 'ToString' takes 1 arguments

Ask by Anonymous User

Updated 15 Apr 2015

1 Answers

Mark M 15 Apr 2015

If you use DisplayFor, then you have to either define the format via the DisplayFormat attribute or use a custom display template.

[DisplayFormat(DataFormatString = "{0:MM/dd/yyyy}")]

public DateTime? AuditDate { get; set; }

Or create the view Views\Shared\DisplayTemplates\DateTime.cshtml:

@model DateTime?
if (Model.HasValue)
{
    @Model.ToString("MM/dd/yyyy")
}

That will apply to all DateTimes, though, even ones where you're encoding the time as well. If you want it to apply only to date-only properties, then use Views\Shared\DisplayTemplates\Date.cshtml and the DataType attribute on your property:

[DataType(DateType.Date)]
public DateTime? AuditDate { get; set; }

The final option is to just not use DisplayFor and just render the property directly:

@if (Model.AuditDate.HasValue)
{
   
@Model.AuditDate.Value.ToString("MM/dd/yyyy")
}

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