Question

I can not seem to get this to work.

@if (isReal)
{
    @section Navigation{
        @{Html.RenderPartial("NavigationForInput");}
    }
}

that doesn’t work because it says “once inside code you dont’ need @ blah blah blah”

but, when I remove the @ from in front of section, it wants to use section as a type variable.

how can I only show that section conditionally?

Answer 1

Depending if your Layout has an alternative for undefined sections or not, you could just reverse the @if and @section

@section Navigation{
{
    @if (isReal)
        @{Html.RenderPartial("NavigationForInput");}
    } 
}

If you just want to leave out the nav, this should be fine, but it won’t work if you are using IsSectionDefined(“Navigation”) in your layout, as it will always return true.