ASP.Net MVC DisplayFormat

asp.net-mvc data-annotations
Gavin picture Gavin · Jan 4, 2010 · Viewed 98.3k times · Source

In my model I have the following DataAnnotations on one of my properties

[Required(ErrorMessage = "*")]
[DisplayFormat(DataFormatString = "{0:d}")]
[DataType(DataType.Date)]
public DateTime Birthdate { get; set; }

The required annotation works great, I added the other 2 to try and remove the time. It gets bound to an input in the view using 

<%=Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.Birthdate, new { @class = "middle-input" })%>

However whenever the view loads I still get the time appearing in the input box. Is there anyway to remove this using DataAnnotations?

Answer

Brad Wilson picture Brad Wilson · Jan 5, 2010

The [DisplayFormat] attribute is only used in EditorFor/DisplayFor, and not by the raw HTML APIs like TextBoxFor.

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