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I was wondering if there was any way to directly change the format of a date displayed in a TextAreaFor. I know this topic has been asked alot and my problem may seem similar to those two:

MVC DateTime Textbox Formatting Issue

How do you format a DateTime that's displayed by TextBoxFor() in MVC3?

But I will explain why its different. Here's the textarefor :

@Html.TextAreaFor(m => m[i].DateFormation, new { @class = "textArea" })

Like in the questions I linked above, I could put the DisplayFormat attribute on the field but I don't have the right to modify the model or use Metadata

So My question is if there is any way to apply a format to a textareafor like you can do with a textboxfor ?

@Html.TextBoxFor(m => m[i].DateFormation, "{0:yyyy-MM-dd}", new { @class = "textArea" })

I Tried to apply .ToString to my field but it seems like TextAreafor won't accept it

Note : My last case scenario is that I will Have to modify the model content with c# code in view before showing it but that just feels wrong to me and a bad practice to mix my code with the design

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  • `TextAreaFor()` does not support formats. But why are you using a ` –  Aug 05 '17 at 00:12

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After Searching for Sometimes and looking into documentation ( Thanks to @StephenMuecke for the clue) TextAreaFor just dosen't have any option that support formating so ill just be using code before showing the date so that the time isen't shown.

I Looked into most overload and option shown for textarea on this msdn link : https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.mvc.html.textareaextensions(v=vs.118).aspx

And as shown in the link the only possible overload for TextAreaFor are related to the model and none of them could accept a property to change the formating

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