I found a lot of simulair questions but not a good clean solution that is working. I see a lot of custom code for getting this to work but why is that? Should this not working from the start?
What I think is strange, is that in IE9 it works but in Firefox and Chrome it is failing. Everytime that im trying in Firefox or Chrome, I get the message "The field Birthday must be a date".
When I try the code below in a new MVC 4 RTM project, I can't get it to work. I see the DateTime.Now default as dd-MM-yyyy (Holland) in all the browsers but I can't submit it in Firefox and Chrome.
The globalization tag isn't set in web.config so it must be using the default. Im from Holland so it should get the client culture I guess.
public class RegisterModel
{
[Required]
[Display(Name = "User name")]
public string UserName { get; set; }
[Required]
[DisplayFormat(DataFormatString = "{0:d}", ApplyFormatInEditMode = true)]
//[DataType(DataType.Date)]
public DateTime Birthday { get; set; }
}
[AllowAnonymous]
public ActionResult Register()
{
RegisterModel vm = new RegisterModel()
{
Birthday = DateTime.Now
};
return View(vm);
}
[HttpPost]
[AllowAnonymous]
[ValidateAntiForgeryToken]
public ActionResult Register(RegisterModel model)
{
if (ModelState.IsValid)
{
// Attempt to register the user
try
{
//WebSecurity.CreateUserAndAccount(model.UserName, model.Password);
//WebSecurity.Login(model.UserName, model.Password);
return RedirectToAction("Index", "Home");
}
catch (MembershipCreateUserException e)
{
ModelState.AddModelError("", ErrorCodeToString(e.StatusCode));
}
}
// If we got this far, something failed, redisplay form
return View(model);
}
Markup
<!-- language: lang-none -->
@model DateTimeWithDatePicker.Models.RegisterModel
@{
ViewBag.Title = "Register";
}
<hgroup class="title">
<h1>@ViewBag.Title.</h1>
<h2>Create a new account.</h2>
</hgroup>
@using (Html.BeginForm()) {
@Html.AntiForgeryToken()
@Html.ValidationSummary()
<fieldset>
<legend>Registration Form</legend>
<ol>
<li>
@Html.LabelFor(m => m.UserName)
@Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.UserName)
</li>
<li>
@Html.LabelFor(m => m.Birthday)
@Html.EditorFor(m => m.Birthday)
</li>
</ol>
<input type="submit" value="Register" />
</fieldset>
}
@section Scripts {
@Scripts.Render("~/bundles/jqueryval")
}
I was able to fix this by modifying the jQuery validator function for dates:
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function () {
var dateFormat="dd/mm/yy"; // en-gb date format, substitute your own
$("#Birthday").datepicker({
"dateFormat": dateFormat
});
jQuery.validator.addMethod(
'date',
function (value, element, params) {
if (this.optional(element)) {
return true;
};
var result = false;
try {
$.datepicker.parseDate(dateFormat, value);
result = true;
} catch (err) {
result = false;
}
return result;
},
''
);
});