ASP.NET MVC 3 using Razor - use conditional expression with HTML output

Question

I tried this for many days ... (I'm in the process of learning ASP.NET MVC 3)

This link - Razor If / Else conditional operator syntax - says that the only valid conditional expression syntax in the Razor engine is @ (x? Y: z)

Good. Now, how to write HTML in this conditional expression? I cannot use Razor here, the following code leads to an invalid syntax error.

@(item.Manager == null ? @:<i>unassigned</i> : item.Manager.Name) 

After some research, I discovered HtmlWriter or Html.Raw, but neither of them, nor the methods of the .toString () or .toHtmlString () methods, because they are not from a string, but from an IHtmlString type.

Thanks for the answer!

Answer 1

 @(item.Manager == null ? new HtmlString("<i>unassigned</i>") : new HtmlString( item.Manager.Name) )