[asp.net-mvc-3] Escape @ character in razor view engine

I am creating a sample ASP.NET MVC 3 site using Razor as view engine. The razor syntax starts with @ character e.g. @RenderBody(). If I write @test on my cshtml page it gives me parse error

CS0103: The name 'test' does not exist in the current context

How do I escape '@' character?

use <text></text> or the easier way @:

You can use @@ for this purpose. Like var email = firstName + '\@@' + domain;

just add a variable in CSHTML file var myVariable = @"@";

and add it to your layout <span class="my-class"><a href="@myVariale" target="_blank" >link text</a></span>

For the question about @RazorCodePart1 @@ @RazorCodePart2, you need to the sequence:

@RazorCodePart1 @:@@ @RazorCodePart2

I know, it looks a bit odd, but it works and will get you the literal character '@' between the code blocks.

I couldn't get any of these to work inside my placeholder attribute, so I used xml special character.

<input type="text" placeholder="fex: firstname&#64;lastname.com"/>

See more examples here. https://www.dvteclipse.com/documentation/svlinter/How_to_use_special_characters_in_XML.3F.html

@@ is the escape character for @ in Razor views as stated above.

Razor does however try to work out when an '@' is just an '@' and where it marks C# (or VB.Net) code. One of the main uses for this is to identify email addresses within a Razor view - it should not be necessary to escape the @ character in an email address.

I just had the same problem. I declared a variable putting my text with the @.

@{
   var twitterSite = "@MyTwitterSite";
}

...

<meta name="twitter:site" content="@twitterSite">

this work for me

<meta name="author" content="Alan van Buuren @("@Alan_van_Buuren")">

Or yoy can use: @@Alan_van_Buuren

:D

I know this question is old, but I tried all of the above and it didn't help me escape the character "@" in ASP.NET full framework (MVC 5) inside a URL. Based on Terje Solem's answer though, the UTF-8 code %40 worked for me. this is the original URL I was trying to reach:

https://unpkg.com/@google/[email protected]/dist/markerclustererplus.min.js

and with with the code in it:

https://unpkg.com/%40google/[email protected]/dist/markerclustererplus.min.js

@Html.Raw("@") seems to me to be even more reliable than @@, since not in all cases @@ will escape.

Therefore:

<meta name="twitter:site" content="@twitterSite">

would be:

<meta name="twitter:site" content="@Html.Raw("@")twitterSite">

I tried all the options above and none worked. This is what I did that worked :

@{
    string str = @"[a-z0-9._%+-]+@[a-z0-9.-]+\.[a-z]{2,3}$";
}

<td>Email</td>
<td>
   <input type="text" id="txtEmail" required name="email" pattern=@str /> 
</td>

I created a string varible and passed all the RegEx pattern code into it, then used the variable in the html, and Razor was cool with it.

Instead of HTML entity I prefer the use of @Html.Raw("@").

Razor @ escape char to symbols...

<img src="..." alt="Find me on twitter as @("@username")" />

or

<img src="..." alt="Find me on twitter as @("@")username" />

Actually @ should be used with the Razor syntax Keywords or to the variable/model to bind a Value.

For Eg: if test is assigned with value i.e @ { var test = "ABC" } then you can get the value by settings as @test anywhere is cshtml page in html part. otherwise, simple use as @Html.DisplayName("test")