Question

What I have : A C# database query that returns two columns, one of which contains a start time of a meeting, the other of which contains the end time. The times are of the same time period and cannot be over two days.

What I would like to do : Cycle through these returned values, and create a dropdown box for each day containing the start-corresponding end time. If there are no values for a certain day, display the message “No times free for this day”.

My code so far :

  var result = db.Query(//returns two columns, ds and de, two dateTimes meaning the start and end date of an event.)

<form id="form" name="form" method="post" action="insert.cshtml">
    <label>@result.First().ds.DayOfWeek <select name="start_to_end_time"></label> 
        @foreach(var record in result) {
             if(day.Equals(record.ds.DayOfWeek)) {
                 <option value="@record.ds">@record.ds.ToString("HH:mm") - @record.de.ToString("HH:mm")</option>
                } else {
                    </select>
                    <label>@record.ds.DayOfWeek<select name="start_to_end_time"></label>
                    <option value=@record.ds>@record.ds.ToString("HH:mm") - @record.ds.ToString("HH:mm")</option>
                }  
        }

This throws the error : “Encountered end tag “select” with no matching start tag. Are your start/end tags properly balanced?”

However, looking at my code, I believe they are balanced correctly? Can anybody help me with this please?

Answer 1

You have the equivalent of this which is invalid markup:

<label> <select></label> 
</select>