ASP.NET MVC Razor rendering

Question

Why does the following code renders my child action:

<div class='h-l'>
  @if (ViewBag.Hide)
  {
     @Html.Action(MVC.City.GetCitiesList().AddRouteValue("makeBig", false));
  }
</div>

but if I delete @ before @Html.Action, nothing is rendered?

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 11:48:06Z

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From MSDN

ChildActionExtensions.Action Method.
Invokes a child action method and returns the result as an HTML string.

You should use @ to determine a string as a method. Take a look at ASP.Net @ Symbol

edited May 23, 2017 at 11:48

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Alex Kovanev Over a year ago

The reason is because you can use html tags in a code block. And you can insert strings inside them. Thus any command without @ will be determined as a simple string.

SiberianGuy Over a year ago

Shymep, but why then it doesn't render this "string" in case I don't type @?

Alex Kovanev Over a year ago

Unfortunately I haven't succeeded in finding an article on MDSN describing rendering inside code blocks. Seems exactly @ answers for rendering. Otherwise it's just a command (if not inside a tag block).

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