Date Format using Html.DisplayFor() in MVC5

Question

Referencing the answer in this post I added /Views/Shared/DisplayTemplates and added a partial view called ShortDateTime.cshtml as shown below:

@model System         


        

Answer 1

By applying the conditional statement ahead of the Html helper, only non null values get passed.

@if (item.BirthDate != null) { @Html.DisplayFor(modelItem => item.BirthDate , "ShortDateTime")}