Using HTML5 Date Input Type Inside GridView

HTML5 provides several new input types such as email, URL and Date. While using Date input type a textbox is displayed as a date-picker by browsers such as Chrome and Opera. Such a textbox uses dates in yyyy-MM-dd format (ISO format) and this formatting can lead to some problems in data controls such as GridView as discussed below.

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