Conditional apex output field

Question

I have a data table in a visualforce page where I would like to display "nothing here" if my sObject field is empty, but if there is something written inside i would like to display it. i was trying something like this but it doesnt work:

{!if(Custom_Object__c.field__c = ISBLANK(), "nothing here", {!Custom_Object__c.field__c}

Answer 1

The proper syntax would be to use the IF statement, then check ISBLANK in condition like ISBLANK(Custom_Object__c.field__c). And you do not have to use a merge field inside a merge field, so everything goes inside single merge field {!YourValue}.

Try this:

{!IF(ISBLANK(Custom_Object__c.field__c), "nothing here", Custom_Object__c.field__c)}