Are IF..ELSE statements in a View frowned upon in ASP.NET MVC?

Question

I know that you want to keep logic out of your views. I can elimate most loops by using DisplayFor/EditorFor and passing IEnumerables to the view.

What about IF statements? should they be avoided completely in views? used sparingly? as a last resort?

Say you wanted to show hide an element based on a User role...How would u go about doing this without an IF statement...a completely seperate view perhaps?

Just trying to get an idea of best practices.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Be consistent, and keep in mind the purpose of the view - to produce your HTML. Toward that end, certainly you will need some if constructs here or there. I think some people are suggesting you stick to some pie-in-the-sky, ultra-nitpicky purism here at the expense of usable, functional, well-defined code.

Answer 2

There is nothing wrong with using ifs in your views, as long as you don't end up putting backend logic in them.