Current date and time - Default in MVC razor

Question

When the MVC view page with this textbox, loads , I would like to display current date and time by default. How can I do this? in razor.

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Answer 1

You could initialize ReturnDate on the model before sending it to the view.

In the controller:

[HttpGet]
public ActionResult SomeAction()
{
    var viewModel = new MyActionViewModel
    {
        ReturnDate = System.DateTime.Now
    };

    return View(viewModel);
}