Conditionally closing tag in Thymeleaf

Question

I need to conditionally close tag in my Thymeleaf template. Say, during iterating some collection of elements I have to wrap series of some of them into single <div>:

<div>...element1, element2, element3...</div>
<div>...element4...</div>
<div>...element5, element6...</div>

This could be archived if some way of conditionally tag closing would exist. But I can't obviously write </div th:if="...">. If it would be jsp I could easily write something like:

<%if (condition) {%></div><%}%>

Any ideas how to solve this issue?

EDIT To be precise, my elements aren't just strings, they are complex inner html blocks.

Answer 1

I think it's better represent the data as separate lists, as you mentioned in your previous answer.

But even for curiosity, there is an ugly workaround to achieve something similar to <%if (condition) {%></div><%}%>, as you asked.

The trick is to generate the tag as escaped text:

<th:block th:if="${openTagCondition}" th:utext="'&lt;div&gt;'" /> 

<th:block th:if="${colseTagCondition}" th:utext="'&lt;/div&gt;'" /> 

This is just out of curiosity. I do not recommend using this workaround as it's pretty unreadable, harms maintainability and you can leave unbalanced tags.