Adding html in an if statement nested in a for loop

Question

I have code like this in my razor index view:

@for (decimal hour=7m; hour<=20.5m; hour +=0.5m)
{
  var item = @Model.Items.FirstOrDefault( i=> i.Hour == hour);
  if (item != null)
  {
    <td colspan="@item.TimeBlocks">
      @item.Description
    </td>
    hour += (item.TimeBlocks-1)* 0.5m;
  }
  else
  {
    <td>
      <a href="/Items/Add/@Model.UserId">+</a>
    </td>
  }
}

For some reason, the VS2013 consistently tells me "} expected" in the Error List window. The syntax highlighter shows everything highlighted fine until the curly brace right before the else.

I have tried using @: for the html tags. It works fine in the if block, but in the else block I get the following error: ":" is not valid at the start of a code block.

I have tried wrapping the html tags in a tag as well, but that doesn't work either.

How would I do this to get it to render?

@rexcfnghk - Typo when creating the question. My code in VS is just for, not foreach — thorkia
– thorkia, Commented Jan 2, 2015 at 1:38
var item = @Model.Items.FirstOrDefault( i=> i.Hour == hour); this line shouldn't have the @ symbol as you aren't outputting the result to the response stream — Slicksim
– Slicksim, Commented Jan 2, 2015 at 8:37
@Slicksim That was the problem! You want to add that as an asnwer and I will accept it? — thorkia
– thorkia, Commented Jan 2, 2015 at 16:59

Slicksim · Accepted Answer · 2015-01-02 19:07:36Z

1

You have a mistake in your code.

The following line

var item = @Model.Items.FirstOrDefault( i=> i.Hour == hour);

Should actually read:

var item = Model.Items.FirstOrDefault( i=> i.Hour == hour);

Removing that will fix your code

answered Jan 2, 2015 at 19:07

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