DatePicker in View in ASP.NET MVC4

Question

I am using ASPX.NET MVC4, with aspx as view engine. I have a function at my controller, which takes as input a start date and an enddate. I want these dates to be given by the user using a DatePicker, or something similar, and after that to be passed at the controller.

However, I found that asp does not have a DatePicker. How do I use a datepicker for my application?

I also looked here and here but I did not find them really helpful. Do you know how I am able to do that?

Answer 1

If you're using a standard ASP.NET MVC template then you're very likely already loading/using jQuery. It's also pretty likely that you're loading/using jQuery UI . (If not, it's easy enough to include . There's even a handy NuGet package for it.)

Given this, converting any input type="text" (or @Html.TextBox() or any number of other server-side helpers which emit an input type="text" ) into a "date picker" is a single line of code:

$(targetInputs).datepicker();