If value is null put an empty string on razor template?

Question

I have a razor template like below. I want to check if the value in the input field is null, put a empty string, if the @UIManager.Member.EMail has a value, put its value. How can I do that?

Normal Input:

<input name="EMail" id="SignUpEMail" type="text" class="Input"         value="@UIManager.Member.EMail" validate="RequiredField" /> 

Razor Syntax Attempt:

<input name="EMail" id="SignUpEMail" type="text" class="Input" validate="RequiredField"        value="@(UIManager.Member == null) ? string.Empty : UIManager.Member.EMail" /> 

The value is shown in the input field is:

True ? string.Empty : UIBusinessManager.MemberCandidate.EMail 

Answer 1

If sounds like you just want:

@(UIManager.Member == null ? "" : UIManager.Member.Email) 

Note the locations of the brackets is critical; with razor, @(....) defines an explicit range to the code - hence anything outside the brackets is treated as markup (not code).