Question

I have this markup:

@using (Html.BeginRouteForm("Default", new { controller = "Home", action = "Form" }, FormMethod.Post, new { @ID="FormId", @Name="FormId"}))
{
    <span>...</span>
    <div class="clearFloats"><!-- ---></div>
    <span>...</span>
}

And since moving to Razor 2, MVC 4 I now get the error:

• The using 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.

If I remove the <div class="clearFloats"><!-- ---></div> code, everything is OK. I know the solution is to change these float clearing divs for a different construct of somesort, but why is it now breaking?

Answer 1

A temporary solution would be to wrap the <!-- --> with @Html.Raw("<!-- -->") which seems to eliminate the error.

Edit: Actually the problem in your example is is the trailing three dashes ---> on the close comment tag. Remove one of those and it works correctly.