Formatting dates in the GridView

[thechaosengine]

Hi all,

I'm having trouble getting dates to display in the right format in my GridView.

I'd like it to appear in the UK format - just the date, not the time, but
I'm not having any luck.

Someone suggested i try DataFormatString="{0:dd-mm-yyyy}" on the appropriate
column however that still outputs 24/04/2006 00:00:00

Can anyone suggest how to get rid of the time element?

Many thanks all

Simon

 

[Rick]

The DataFormatString will only work for a BoundColumn. If you are using a
TemplateColumn you can use:

DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "mydate", "dd-mm-yyyy")

 

[S. Justin Gengo [MCP]]

Simon,

You have to disable the HtmlEncoding of the column, which is set to true by
default.

Here's an example of a price column I wanted to format as currency with no
decimal. The format won't be used unless HtmlEncode is set to "False".
<asp:BoundField DataField="Price" DataFormatString="{0:c0}"
HtmlEncode="False" HeaderText="Price" SortExpression="Price" />


--
Sincerely,

S. Justin Gengo, MCP
Web Developer / Programmer

www.aboutfortunate.com

"Out of chaos comes order."
Nietzsche

 

[thechaosengine]

Thanks guys!

Thast a great help



Simon