Question

I need to modify the display of elements in my razor view depending on the value of a variable that’s in my model.

What I have is Model.PartitionKey which is a six character string. I need to code an if statement that will check if the 3rd and 4th characters of this string are “00”.

Here’s what I have so far:

@using (Ajax.BeginForm(
    action,
    "Contents",
    null,
    new AjaxOptions
    {
        UpdateTargetId = "update-message",
        InsertionMode = InsertionMode.Replace,
        HttpMethod = "POST",
        OnSuccess = success,
        OnFailure = "ajaxOnFailure"
    }, new { @id = "dialogForm", @class = "content ui-widget dialog-admin" }))
{

<div class="float-left">
    @Html.LabelFor(model => model.Status)
    @if (action == "Edit" || action == "Create") {
        @Html.DropDownList("Status", null, new { @class="drop-down", id = "dialogStatus", style="width: 120px" })
    }
    else
    {
        @Html.TextBox("Status", (string)ViewBag.Status, new { @readonly = true })      
    }
</div> 

@if ( Model.PartitionKey.Substring(2,2) == "00") {  
<div class="float-left">
    Html.LabelFor(model => model.Link)
    if (action == "Edit" || action == "Create") {
        Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.Link, new { size = 25 })
    } else {
        Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.Link, new { size = 25, @readonly = true })
    }
</div> 
}

The problem is that it there is an error message on line starting with @if on the 3rd character “f” saying “unexepected if keyword after the @ character”.

Note that I have @ characters before the if in the first block of code. However it is just in the second block of code that it complains.

Answer 1

Try

@using (Ajax.BeginForm(
    action,
    "Contents",
    null,
    new AjaxOptions
    {
        UpdateTargetId = "update-message",
        InsertionMode = InsertionMode.Replace,
        HttpMethod = "POST",
        OnSuccess = success,
        OnFailure = "ajaxOnFailure"
    }, new { @id = "dialogForm", @class = "content ui-widget dialog-admin" }))
{

<div class="float-left">
    @Html.LabelFor(model => model.Status)
    @if (action == "Edit" || action == "Create") {
        @Html.DropDownList("Status", null, new { @class="drop-down", id = "dialogStatus", style="width: 120px" })
    }
    else
    {
        @Html.TextBox("Status", (string)ViewBag.Status, new { @readonly = true })      
    }
</div> 

if ( Model.PartitionKey.Substring(2,2) == "00") {  
<div class="float-left">
    @Html.LabelFor(model => model.Link)
    @if (action == "Edit" || action == "Create") {
        @Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.Link, new { size = 25 })
    } else {
        @Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.Link, new { size = 25, @readonly = true })
    }
</div> 
}
}