Question

How can I write the following statement with Razor?

   @{ 
    if (isOddRow)
    {
      <tr class="PadColumns">
    }
    else
    {
      <tr class="PadColumns AlternateRow">
    } 
    //then...
    <td>content</td>
    </tr>
    }

Razor gets mad and Intellisense busts.

so I tried wrapping my tr's in <text>

if (isOddRow)
{
  <text><tr class="PadColumns"></text>
}

…which causes a runtime parser error regarding tr with no matching start tag.

I would like to apply DRY by avoiding

   if (isOddRow)
    {
      <tr class="PadColumns">
          //then...
    <td>content</td>
    </tr>
    }
    else
    {
      <tr class="PadColumns AlternateRow">
    //then...
    <td>content</td>
    </tr>
    } 

Answer 1

Why not just do something like this? Put the if statement inside the class attribute. If it’s false, it’ll print out AlternateRow, otherwise it prints out nothing.

<tr class="PadColumns @(isOddRow ? "" : "AlternateRow")">