Thymeleaf If Else Condition

In this tutorial, we show how to use the if-else condition in Thymeleaf HTML templates.

Thymeleaf provides the th:if and th:unless attributes perform if-else condition.

The th:if and th:unless attributes allow us to render an HTML element depending on a provided condition.

Thymeleaf If Else Condition Example

Create User Model

package net.javaguides.thymeleaf.model;

public class User {
    private String name;
    private String email;
    private String role;
    private String gender;

    public User(String name, String email, String role, String gender) {
        this.name = name;
        this.email = email;
        this.role = role;
        this.gender = gender;
    }

    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

    public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }

    public String getEmail() {
        return email;
    }

    public void setEmail(String email) {
        this.email = email;
    }

    public String getRole() {
        return role;
    }

    public void setRole(String role) {
        this.role = role;
    }

    public String getGender() {
        return gender;
    }

    public void setGender(String gender) {
        this.gender = gender;
    }
}

Create Spring MVC Controller - UserController

Within DemoController class, let's create a handler method to return the view and model:
import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.ui.Model;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.GetMapping;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

@Controller
public class UserController {

    // if-unless condition
    @GetMapping("if-unless")
    public String ifUnless(Model model){
        User ramesh = new User("ramesh","ramesh@gmail.com", "ADMIN", "M");
        User admin = new User("admin","admin@gmail.com", "ADMIN", "M");
        User meena = new User("meena","meena@gmail.com", "USER", "F");
        List<User> users = new ArrayList<>();
        users.add(ramesh);
        users.add(admin);
        users.add(meena);
        model.addAttribute("users", users);
        return "if-unless";
    }
}

Create Thymeleaf template - if-unless.html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en"
      xmlns:th="http://www.thymeleaf.org"
>
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>User Management</title>
</head>
<body>
<table border="1">
    <thead>
    <tr>
        <th>Name</th>
        <th>Email</th>
        <th>Role</th>
        <th>Gender</th>
    </tr>
    </thead>
    <tbody>
    <tr th:each="user : ${users}">
        <td th:text="${user.name}"></td>
        <td th:text="${user.email}"></td>
        <td th:text="${user.role}"></td>
        <td>
            <a class="btn btn-primary" th:if="${user.role} == 'ADMIN'">Update</a>
            <a class="btn btn-danger" th:if="${user.role} == 'ADMIN'">Delete</a>
            <a class="btn btn-primary" th:unless="${user.role} == 'ADMIN'">View</a>
        </td>
    </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>
</body>
</html>
If the User role is 'ADMIN' then the Update and Delete buttons will be rendered unless the View button will be rendered.

Demo:

Run your Spring boot application and hit this URL in a browser:

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