Razor View syntax does not recognize "@" in HTML attribute

Question

I am moving the project from MVC 2 to MVC3 and the razor viewer mechanism.

In MVC 2, I will have the following html:

<div id="del_<%= Model.ActivityID.ToString() %>"></div> 

When using a razor, I tried the following, which displays the literal text " [e-mail] ()" when I want del_1.

 <div id=" [e-mail] ()"></div> 

To get around the problem, I used:

 <div id="@Model.ActivityID.ToString()_del"></div> 

Is there any way to get a razor to work with this syntax?

 <div id=" [e-mail] ()"></div> 

Answer 1

You will need to use @() around your specific model value as follows:

 <div id=" del_@ (Model.ActivityID.ToString())"></div> 

The reason for this is that [e-mail] looks like an email address for the parser, and by default the parser tries to ignore email addresses, so you don’t have to do something stupid like john@ @doe.com , because emails are common enough that it would be unpleasant to do every time. So the people working on the razor parser just thought, “If this is like email, ignore it.” So why do you have this particular problem.

Answer 2

 <div id=" del_@ (Model.ActivityID.ToString())"></div> 

If you don't see the trick: use @( )