Question

This one is strange…I have the following markup for a view using Razor view engine ASP.Net MVC 3 RC

            <p>
                <div class="editor-label">
                    @Html.LabelFor(model => model.Client.FirstName)
                </div>
                <div class="editor-field">
                    @Html.EditorFor(model => model.Client.FirstName) @Html.ValidationMessageFor(model => model.Client.FirstName)
                </div>
                <div class="editor-label">
                    @Html.LabelFor(model => model.Client.LastName)
                </div>
                <div class="editor-field">
                    @Html.EditorFor(model => model.Client.LastName) @Html.ValidationMessageFor(model => model.Client.LastName)
                </div>
            </p>

The problem is that when it renders, the P tag is not surrounding the DIVs! It renders like this:

<p>
                </p><div class="editor-label">
                    <label for="Client.FirstName">First Name</label>
                </div>
                <div class="editor-field">
                    <input class="text-box single-line" data-val="true" data-val-required="The First Name field is required." id="Client_FirstName" name="Client.FirstName" value="My FName" type="text"> <span class="field-validation-valid" data-valmsg-for="Client.FirstName" data-valmsg-replace="true"></span>
                </div>
                <div class="editor-label">
                    <label for="Client.LastName">Last Name</label>
                </div>
                <div class="editor-field">
                    <input class="text-box single-line" data-val="true" data-val-required="The Last Name field is required." id="Client_LastName" name="Client.LastName" value="My LName" type="text"> <span class="field-validation-valid" data-valmsg-for="Client.LastName" data-valmsg-replace="true"></span>
                </div>

What the heck is going on? Any help is appreciated!

Answer 1

a paragraph cannot contain other block level elements. w3c

also check out this question