asp.net mvc 3 - MVC3 Razor: Displaying html within code blocks

Question

In my cshtml files I have a lot of blocks with stuff like this:

@if(Model.foo)
{
    <span>Hello World</span>
}

The only reason the span is there is because I can't find any other way to force it to recognize that "Hello World" is part of the html unless I surround it in html tags. Is there a good way to escape the code that doesn't involve adding meaningless tags to the display?

Answer 1

You could use @: to escape:

@if(Model.foo)
{
    @:Hello World
}

or the special <text> tag which is not outputted in the response:

@if(Model.foo)
{
    <text>Hello World</text>
}