Razor Syntax

The contents of a code block ({ ... }) are expected to be code, not markup.

If you want to put text directly in a code block, you have three choices:

• Wrap it in any HTML tag
• Wrap it in the special Razor <text> tag, which will just render the text without the tag
• Prepend the line with @:, which is equivalent

Use the <text> tags

The <text> tag signals to the razor view engine to write the contents to the output.

@{ var foo = true; }
@if(foo) { <text>Yes</text> } else { <text>No</text> }

Use @:

Prefix the text with @: before the first instance of text in the line. The parser is interpreting everything following @:Yes... to be text.

@{ var foo = true;
    if (foo)
    {
        @:Yes
    }
    else
    {
        @:No
    }
}

Razor Syntax allows you to embed code (C#) into page views through the use of a few keywords (such as “@”), and then have the C# code be processed and converted at runtime to HTML. In other words, rather than coding static HTML syntax in the page view, a user can code in the view in C# and have the Razor engine convert the C# code into HTML at runtime, creating a dynamically generated HTML web page.

@page
@model IndexModel
<h2>Welcome</h2>
 
<ul>
  @for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++)
  {
    <li>@i</li>
  }
</ul>