Question

I have this bit on codebehind:

txtDBirth.Text = DateTime.Now.ToString("Mon dd yyyy")

We would like the date to appear in the format of Month Day Year as in Oct 07 2011

Then on the markup, I have this:

<asp:TextBox runat="server" ID="txtDBirth" CssClass="TextBox" />

When we run this code, we would the value of this:

txtDBirth.Text = DateTime.Now.ToString("Mon dd yyyy")

to appear inside

<asp:TextBox runat="server" ID="txtDBirth" CssClass="TextBox" />

perhaps like:

<asp:TextBox runat="server" ID="txtDBirth" CssClass="TextBox"  value="Oct 07 2011/>

The idea is that the date value in the markup will change automatically to the current day’s date.

Is this possible?

Answer 1

You can do that by simply doing sort of what you are already doing except that the format for your date is wrong. It should be something like:

txtDBirth.Text = DateTime.Now.ToString("MMM dd yyyy")

Will print:

Oct 09 2011

You can’t make the markup change automatically and you shouldn’t need to, anyway. You are using a TextBox control and the Text Property is for setting the value inside the control.

UPDATE (after reading comment to John Saunders):

You could do:

<asp:TextBox runat="server" id="txtDBirth" />

On code behind:

You set txtBirth.Text from your data and then you compare:

If(txtDBirth.Text=DateTime.Now.ToString("MMM dd yyyy")) Then
   txtDBirth.Text = "Change to something different"
End If