I have a bootstrap navbar at the top of my page main page and inside it is a text input. I want it hidden until a search is performed and the user sees the results in the results controller .

This is inside my bootstrap navbar.

<input type="text" class="form-control" placeholder="Search">

For example:

Hidden:  www.example/home/index
Visible: www.example/results

I have a bootstrap navbar at the top of my page main page and inside it is a text input. I want it hidden until a search is performed and the user sees the results in the results controller .

This is inside my bootstrap navbar.

<input type="text" class="form-control" placeholder="Search">

For example:

Hidden:  www.example./home/index
Visible: www.example./results

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• One possible option would be to assign a value to ViewBag and include/exclude the html based on its value - @if(ViewBag.CanDisplay) {.. – user3559349 Commented Feb 1, 2015 at 5:22
• Since your navbar is on master/layout page...why not to check the condition there and display the input accordingly. – Vijay Commented Feb 1, 2015 at 5:34
• How would I check the condition on the master page/layout? – chuckd Commented Feb 1, 2015 at 5:40
• So this has nothing to do with bootstrap perse, the question is two part. 1. How to pass info from a controller to the shared layout, and 2 How to toggle the visibility of an element based on a property. What have you tried so far regarding either of those? – KyleMit ♦ Commented Feb 1, 2015 at 13:53
• I'm using @if(ViewBag.CanDisplay) to hide data currently – chuckd Commented Feb 2, 2015 at 5:48

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In this case, you actually don't need to pass any specific information from the controller to the shared layout.

The shared layout can inspect the current route and the behave accordingly.

@if (ViewContext.RouteData.Values["Controller"].ToString() == "results")
{
    <input type="text" class="form-control" placeholder="Search">
}

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