ASP MVC 5 Client Validation for Range of Datetimes

Question

I want to check an Datetime field in a form. The field is valid between 01/10/2008 and 01/12/2008. Here is how I defined the viewmodel property:

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Answer 1

You must specify dates in a certain format on the attribute and you also much provide the value in that format as well. The date input doesn't like MM/dd/yyyy, even though that's the format it displays in! Pretty retarded IMHO.

You need to add min and max like so:

Resulting Html

Model

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

View

@Html.EditorFor(model => model.DOB, new { htmlAttributes = new { @class = "form-control", min = "1900-01-01", max = "2015-01-01" } })

Then you will get min or max errors in the UI: