Support for {{#else}} ?

[knockout]

Support for {{#else}} ?

[mbest]

It needs to be like this

{{#if loggedIn}}
<li><a href="#">New Request</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Trips</a></li>
<li><a href="#" data-bind="click: logout">logout</a></li>
{{/if}}
{{#else}}
<li><a href="#" data-bind="click: login">login</a></li>
{{/else}}

[brianmhunt]

Hi Dave - operating on mobile so hard to type this out 😀 but there are two options for else. One is using <!-- else --> inside an if/unless/ifnot binding (no #), the other is having a "peer" {{#else}} binding. I can't see the example on my phone but I hope this gives you something to go on. :)

[brianmhunt]

... in any case please leave this open as I'd like to put an example in the docs!

[davetropeano]

1. I had to clean up my markdown comment with the correct link to JSBin.
2. Here's a sample code snippet I'd like to be able to implement. The basic pattern (to me) is that for every control-y virtual binding we should have an equivalent {{#}}

  <ul>
    <li>Home</li>
   
    {{#if loggedIn}}
    <li><a href="#">New Request</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">Trips</a></li>
    <li><a href="#" data-bind="click: logout">logout</a></li>
    {{#else}}
    <li><a href="#" data-bind="click: login">login</a></li>
    {{/if}}
  </ul>

[brianmhunt]

I've updated the if-binding documentation, here: http://www.tko.io/a/if-binding.html

The alternative to two {{#...}} blocks is to use <!-- else --> like this:

<ul>
    <li>Home</li>
   
    {{#if loggedIn}}
    <li><a href="#">New Request</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">Trips</a></li>
    <li><a href="#" data-bind="click: logout">logout</a></li>
    <!-- else -->
    <li><a href="#" data-bind="click: login">login</a></li>
    {{/if}}
</ul>

Ideally we'd have support builtin for a mustache equivalent e.g. {{ else }}, and have the {{# else }} binding check to see if it's already inside an if binding so cases like you've highlighted above with {{# if ... }}...{{# else }}...{{/ if }} would behave as expected.

[brianmhunt]

Closing this as the solution is discussed, but we can re-open if there's something to add, here.