Is there somewhere somebody who did a mapping of the c# dateFormat to the datePicker dateFormat, since I already know the C# dateFormat, I don't want to have to check the datepicker documentation everytime I have to build a custom date Format.
for exmple, i want to be able to specify in my helper dateFormat of 'dd/MM/yy'(c#) and it would convert it to 'dd/mm/yy' DatePicker
One possible approach would be to directly replace the .NET format specifiers with their jquery counterparts as you can see in the following code:
public static string ConvertDateFormat(string format)
{
string currentFormat = format;
// Convert the date
currentFormat = currentFormat.Replace("dddd", "DD");
currentFormat = currentFormat.Replace("ddd", "D");
// Convert month
if (currentFormat.Contains("MMMM"))
{
currentFormat = currentFormat.Replace("MMMM", "MM");
}
else if (currentFormat.Contains("MMM"))
{
currentFormat = currentFormat.Replace("MMM", "M");
}
else if (currentFormat.Contains("MM"))
{
currentFormat = currentFormat.Replace("MM", "mm");
}
else
{
currentFormat = currentFormat.Replace("M", "m");
}
// Convert year
currentFormat = currentFormat.Contains("yyyy") ? currentFormat.Replace("yyyy", "yy") : currentFormat.Replace("yy", "y");
return currentFormat;
}
Original source: http://rajeeshcv.com/2010/02/28/JQueryUI-Datepicker-in-ASP-Net-MVC/
Maybe you can use something like this:
<%= Html.TextBoxFor(x => x.SomeDate, new { @class = "datebox", dateformat = "dd/mm/yy" })%>
and this:
$(function() {
$("input.datebox").each(function() {
$(this).datepicker({ dateFormat: $(this).attr("dateFormat") });
});
});
