Alter date value in Text Box

[BTon15]

I have a Text Box on my ASP.Net page with a mask of 99/99/9999, and it should only accept a Date. I want to be able to type in only a 0 as a shortcut and have some Javascript change the value to the current date. I'm using the OnBlur event on my page to call the Javascript function:

<asp:TextBox runat="server" onblur="SetToCurrentDate(this);" />

My Javascript function looks something like this:

function SetToCurrentDate(myDate)
{
if (myDate.value == "0_/__/____")
{
myDate.value = "15/04/2010";
}
}

I know that I'm getting into the if condition as I've tried using an alert to display a message. However, my Text Box is not getting its value changed to 15/04/2010.

I'm sure I've got something pretty straightforward wrong here, but as a newcomer to ASP.Net and Javascript, I'm really scratching my head with this.

I'd really appreciate any advice.

Thanks.

 

[vacunita]

1. Show us the final rendered HTML code, not the ASP stuff. So we can see what your rendered textbox looks like.

2. How are you setting the mask? If by JS, the mask function itself may be interfering with the new value. That is it gets the value but the mask function resets it.





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