Best way to hide Table or Grid and display No Records Found Message with ASP.NET MVC ?

Question

Hi,

What is the best practices for hiding a custom grid or a table or a div and display a "No Records Found" message when there are no records.

I ve come up with this idea

<div class="<%= Html.IsVisible(Model.Count)">
    ...
    ..
    ..
</div

.displayNone {display:none;} .displayInherit {display:inherit;}

public static string IsVisible(this HtmlHelper helper,int recordCount)
{
     return recordCount == 0 ? "displayNone" : "displayInherit";
}

Answer 1

Your solution would work fine, but I think you might be overthinking it a little :)

This would work perfectly fine:

<% if (Model.Count == 0) { %>
    No Records Found
<% } else { %>
    // do something to show the Model information here
<% }

Answer 2

Make the if in the controller?

if Model.Count == 0 display the "EmptyView" else show the GridView

Empty view could be made generic to be use from several objects.