Why is DisplayFormat DataFormatString not working?

Question

I have a property in my view model as follows:

[Editable(false)]
[Display(Name = \"Date\")]
[DisplayFormat(DataFormatString = \"{0:yyyy/MM/dd}\", ApplyFormat         


        

Answer 1

You have to annotate the type as Date

[DataType(DataType.Date)]

Answer 2

I had a similar issue with a datepicker which was showing the date in the wrong order. Fixed it by using the HTML 5 value field. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/input/date

<input asp-for="From" type="text" class="pickadate picker__input" value="@Model?.From.ToString("MM/dd/yyyy")">