Razor If/Else conditional operator syntax [duplicate]

Question

Not having much luck, I have the following if/else statement in Razor which works perfectly

<small>   @if(deletedView){      @:Deleted   }    else {      @:Created   } by </small>  

I am trying to do something like this:

<small>   @(deletedView) ? @:Deleted : @:Created by </small> 

But that fails miserably. What is the proper syntax?

Answer 1

You need to put the entire ternary expression in parenthesis. Unfortunately that means you can't use "@:", but you could do something like this:

@(deletedView ? "Deleted" : "Created by") 

Razor currently supports a subset of C# expressions without using @() and unfortunately, ternary operators are not part of that set.