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What I want is an if-else in a th:each statement in Thymeleaf.

If currentSkill != null , then show table with content, else 'You don't have any skills'

This is the code without the if/else:

<div th:each="skill : ${currentSkills}">
    <table>
         <tr><td th:text="${skill.name}"/></tr>
    </table>
<div  th:if="${currentSkills != null}">
    <table>
         <tr th:each="skill : ${currentSkills}"><td th:text="${skill.name}"/></tr>
    </table>
<div th:if="${currentSkills == null}">
   You don't have any skills
If currentSkills is a list, you can use the #lists utility like so (which is more correct than the above code since it also takes into account the possibility where the object is not null but is empty):
 <div  th:if="!${#lists.isEmpty(currentSkills)}">
    <table>
         <tr th:each="skill : ${currentSkills}"><td th:text="${skill.name}"/></tr>
    </table>
<div th:if="${#lists.isEmpty(currentSkills)}">
   You don't have any skills
You could do the same if currentSkills is an array by just replacing #lists with #arrays.
Note that in both cases isEmpty() returns true whether the object is null or has zero items.
                @RachitAgrawal You could easily store the result of the expression in local variable using th:with
– geoand
                Mar 11, 2016 at 9:47
<div  th:if="${!currentSkills.isEmpty()}">
    <table>
         <tr th:each="skill : ${currentSkills}"><td th:text="${skill.name}"/></tr>
    </table>
        
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