How to Display Conditional Plain Text with Razor - asp.net-mvc-3

Question

I am having issues with displaying (rather NOT displaying) plain text in an else block.
if (Model.CareerFields != null && ViewBag.CFCount > 0)
{
<h3>Careerfields Listing</h3>
<table>
<tr>
<th></th>
<th>Careerfield Name</th>
</tr>
#foreach (var item in Model.CareerFields)
{
<tr>
<td>
#Html.ActionLink("Select", "Index", new { careerFieldID = item.CareerFieldId })
</td>
<td>
#item.CareerFieldName
</td>
</tr>
}
</table>
}
else
{
No Careerfields associated with #ViewBag.SelectedDivisionTitle
}
The if blocks works fine. The text only renders when true. However, the else block text renders when the page loads, not if it evaluates to false only.
I've tried using
Hmtl.Raw("No Careerfields associated with ")
<text>No Careerfields associated with #ViewBag.SelectedDivisionTitle</text>
#:No Careerfields associated with #ViewBag.SelectedDivisionTitle
But it still renders the plaintext before evaluation.
Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Put your "plain text" inside of a naked <span> tag:
else
{
<span>No Careerfields associated with #ViewBag.SelectedDivisionTitle</span>
}
The browser shouldn't render it special (unless you have css selecting every span) and it'll help razor sense the end of the C# and print your HTML.

Answer 2

The following code worked perfectly for me:
#if (false) {
<h3>
Careerfields Listing
</h3>
<table>
<tr>
<th>
</th>
<th>
Careerfield Name
</th>
</tr>
</table>
}
else
{
#:No Careerfields associated with #ViewBag.SelectedDivisionTitle
}
You can see that the contents of if are rendered when you change condition to true.

Answer 3

Looks like you've forgotten the # sign before your if statement. Try this:
#if (Model.CareerFields != null && ViewBag.CFCount > 0)
{
<h3>Careerfields Listing</h3>
<table>
<tr>
<th></th>
<th>Careerfield Name</th>
</tr>
#foreach (var item in Model.CareerFields)
{
<tr>
<td>
#Html.ActionLink("Select", "Index", new { careerFieldID = item.CareerFieldId })
</td>
<td>#item.CareerFieldName</td>
</tr>
}
</table>
}
else
{
<text>No Careerfields associated with #ViewBag.SelectedDivisionTitle</text>
}

Answer 4

The most concise and correct answer is:
Prepend #: before the text.
(note the : after the #)
This still allows to embed variables in the text by prepending an # to the variable name:
#if (someCondition)
{
#:Some text you want to see.
}
else
{
#:Some other text, with a variable #someVariable included in the text.
}