How do I use a date time control in MVC 4

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Hi All,

I developing a web application for a school. I need to save date of birth, admission date etc. Shall I select the date from a list. If possible, how?.
I am writing the code below which I wrote.

In View

C#

 <div class="editor-label">
     <label for="studentDOB">
         Date Of Birth</label>
 </div>
 <div class="editor-field">
     @Html.EditorFor(model => model.studentDOB, new { type = "date" })
     @Html.ValidationMessageFor(model => model.studentDOB)
</div>

In Model

SQL

[DataType(DataType.Date)]
[DisplayFormat(DataFormatString = "{0:dd/MM/yyyy}",ApplyFormatInEditMode = true)]
public DateTime studentDOB{ get;  set; }

Any one please help me..

Posted 29-Oct-14 21:24pm

Jineesh TR

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Jameel VM · Accepted Answer · 2014-10-29T22:45:00

In MVC doesn't have any control for datetime picker. So you should use jQuery UI datepicker or some other third party plugin. It's very easy to implement.

Download jquery plugin from here
http://jqueryui.com/download/[^]
and then add the Scripts and css in head tag like below

JavaScript

<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <title>jQuery UI Datepicker - Default functionality</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="//code.jquery.com/ui/1.11.2/themes/smoothness/jquery-ui.css">
  <script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
  <script src="//code.jquery.com/ui/1.11.2/jquery-ui.js"></script>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="/resources/demos/style.css">
  <script>
  $(function() {
    $( "#datepicker" ).datepicker();
  });
  </script>
</head>

Also you should change your view code like below

JavaScript

  <div class="editor-label">
            <label for="studentDOB">
                Date Of Birth</label>
        </div>
        <div class="editor-field">
@Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.studentDOB, new {id="datepicker"})

            @Html.ValidationMessageFor(model => model.studentDOB)
       </div>

Hope this helps