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

The problem you're experiencing is that you are passing a null value into a non-nullable model. Change the partial view's model to DateTime?. For example:

@model DateTime?          
@if (!Model.HasValue)
    {
    <text></text>
}
else
{
    @Model.Value.ToShortDateString()
}

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

I guess you should declare the BirthDate property as nullable in model class

public DateTime? BirthDate{ get; set; }

and you must have declared as

public DateTime BirthDate{ get; set; }

this will expect a value every time.

if you set as nullable it will not expect a value.

Answer 3

Have you tried this?

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

Answer 4

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")}