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Asked: 2026-05-23T16:50:47+00:00

I am using ASP.NET MVC 3. I have the following piece of code in

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I am using ASP.NET MVC 3. I have the following piece of code in my razor view:

@foreach(var c in Model.ChildCategories) {
     <div>@c.Name<br></div>
}

It works well. Why when I take away the innder div tags will it not work? This is what I tried:

@foreach(var c in Model.ChildCategories) {
     @c.Name<br>
}

I am not closing the break tag because I am using the strict doc type:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">

The error that I get when I want to view the view is:

The foreach block is missing a closing "}" character.  Make sure you have a matching "}" character for all the "{" characters within this block, and that none of the "}" characters are being interpreted as markup.

I would prefer not to have the inner div tags because I don’t want unnecessary tags in my markup.

I also have the following piece of code:

@if (Model.ParentCategory != null)
{
     @Model.ParentCategory.Name
}
else
{
     @:N/A
}

I want to display the name of the parent category, or just the plain text N/A. Am I doing it correctly? Is it better to have the curly brackets beneath the if or next to it like if (...) {?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Check out Phil Haack’s post razor on syntax 

    @foreach(var c in Model.ChildCategories) 
{
  <text>
     @c.Name<br />
  </text>
}

    but instead of using <br /> consider using <p>

    @foreach(var c in Model.ChildCategories) 
{
  <p>
     @c.Name
  </p>
}

    the last bit with @:N/A is correct.

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