How do you have conditional binding based on other properties?

Example..

var ViewModel = {
   IsAdded = ko.observable(),
   AddedBy = ko.observable()   
}

When I display it.. I don't want to show AddedBy if IsAddedBy is null or false

Something like this..

<input type="text" data-bind="value: if (IsAdded != null && IsAdded) { AddedBy }"/>

I know that isn't right, but something like that...

How do you have conditional binding based on other properties?

Example..

var ViewModel = {
   IsAdded = ko.observable(),
   AddedBy = ko.observable()   
}

When I display it.. I don't want to show AddedBy if IsAddedBy is null or false

Something like this..

<input type="text" data-bind="value: if (IsAdded != null && IsAdded) { AddedBy }"/>

I know that isn't right, but something like that...

• javascript
• data-binding
• knockout.js
• conditional-statements

Share Improve this question Follow asked Sep 24, 2012 at 14:14 jaekiejaekie 2,30344 gold badges3131 silver badges5555 bronze badges 1

• 1 Do you want to hide the whole input box, or just not populate it? If you want to hide it entirely, look at the Visible binding. If you don't want to populate it, then Tim's answer is the way to go – James Thorpe Commented Sep 24, 2012 at 14:40

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What I would do is this;

var ViewModel = function() {
    this.IsAdded = ko.observable('True');
    this.AddedBy = ko.observable('Test');
    this.AddedByText = ko.puted(function(){
        if ( this.AddedBy() != null && this.IsAdded() ) return this.AddedBy()
        return "";
    }, this);
}

Then your input would be

<input type="text" data-bind="value: AddedByText" />

This way you are keeping the logic contained within your ViewModel and separate from the HTML.

This question is old but it might help someone else looking

<input type="text" data-bind="value: IsAdded ? AddedBy : "" "/>

Basically if IsAdded is not null then set the value to AddedBy, else do nothing