Question

I have a ViewBag.IsLocal set to true in controller. I would like to use jquery to check the ViewBag value and display an alert.

Code:

if(@ViewBag.IsLocal == true)
{
alert("yeah");
}

I never get the alert. When I use Firebug to see the value of ViewBag it’s True ( with capital T). Do I have to do something like == ‘True’? I tried it all and none of that worked.

Thank you for help.

H

Answer 1

If you view source on the rendered page, what’s being inserted in place of your razor nugget? If IsLocal is a bool type, I think you’ll see this:

@if(True == true)
{
  alert("yeah");
}

The reason for that is because true.ToString() is True.

In which case, you’ll need to make a string comparison there:

if('@ViewBag.IsLocal' == 'True')
{
  alert("yeah");
}