Razor doesn't understand unclosed html tags

Question

With RazorViewEngine, I can do this:

if (somecondition) {
     
 some stuff 
}

but I can\'t seem to do this (Razor ge

Answer 1

The fact that you have to do this usually indicates that your view code is not factored correctly. The nature of HTML is to have balanced or self-enclosed tags (at least in HTML 4, HTML 5 seems to be leaning away from it) and Razor depends on that assumption. If your going to conditionally ouptut a

then you will also somewhere later output

. Just put the whoel pair in your if statement:

@if(something) {
    

        Other stuff
    
}

Otherwise you end up with weird code like here.