Cannot Get alert to show correct Model Value-CodePudding

I have this code

   $(document).ready(function () {
       var edit= @Model.Edit.ToString().ToLower();
       if( edit !=true ) {
           $("#editWriteup").hide();
       }
       var date= @Model.EndDate;
      alert(date);
      $("#date").val(@Model.EndDate).change();
   });
</script>

It pulls from my Model. And my model gets set in the controller correctly and passes it to the page correctly Also on the page load it shows that @Model.Enddate is correct as a date string "03/01/2020" Just on the alert it does not display correctly. I need the date i pass in the alert to be 03/01/2020. Which is what it says the model contains when i inspect it on the page. I originally tried with a DateTime and switched to use a string for the EndDate thinking that may solve it but to no avail.

The value that I get for the alert is -2048. Which I have no idea where it would even get -2048. It also got -2048 when i passed the datetime value and tried to convert it to a string. Also @Model.Edit works correctly as intended

   ...lastDate = lastSummaryWriteup.EndDate.ToString("MM/dd/yyyy");
                edit = true;
            }

            var model = new SModel
            {               
                EndDate = lastDate,
                Edit = edit
            };

public class SModel
    {  
        public string EndDate { get; set; }

        public bool Edit { get; set; }
    }

Can anyone point me in the right direction to get the alert to actually have the correct string value.

CodePudding user response：

Your issue is that your Razor has rendered your date as a 3 numbers, not as as string.

Always look at the rendered HTML/js.

Your code:

var date = @Model.EndDate;

will be being rendered as (for example):

var date = 01-27-2022;

which js sees as 1 - 27 - 2022 which = -2048

The first step would be to put quotes around your value, as your model has string EndDate { get;set; }, I would start with:

var date = "@Model.EndDate";

You may need to reformat it, eg to yyyy-mm-dd but certainly test for days >12th