@symbol in JavaScript block

Question

I have a JavaScript function like this in my ASP.NET MVC 3 application.

function Foo()
{
   var url = "@Url.Action("MyAction", "MyController")";
   alert(url);
}

I am confused why the above code works . I expected to escape @Url.Action(...)inside the tags <%=?

Answer 1

This is a feature of the Razor viewer — it controls the switch between HTML / Javascript and the server side viewer code, so you don't need to avoid it in most cases.

See Scott Guthrie's blog post: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/07/02/introducing-razor.aspx

Answer 2

, Razor.

: , JavaScript (cshtml)

Answer 3

Yes, it works on razor view pages, but intellisense does not work inside the "or" view mechanism as a web form.