Razor `if` does not register closing `}` if there is an opened `<table>` tag?

Question

This code, in a Razor view:

if (true)
{
    <table>
        <tbody>
}

...

if (true)
{
        </tbody>
    </table>
}

does not run. It claims that there is no closing } on the first if() statement, and I'm guessing it's because of the <table> tag.

Is there a way I can work around this to conditionally insert my <table> tags?

Answer 1

Try prepending the tags with @::

if (true)
{
    @:<table>
        @:<tbody>
}

...

if (true)
{
        @:</tbody>
    @:</table>
}

Answer 2

You can insert it as strings, then they are not parsed as html and doesn't interfer with the syntax:

@Html.Raw(true?"<table><tbody>":"")

@Html.Raw(true?"</tbody></table>":"")

Answer 3

Razor does expect the matching closing tags to be inside of the statement by default.

You can use the special <text> tag to help Razor out:

@if (true) {
    <text>
    <table>
        <tbody>
    </text>
}