Mixing text and functions inside an if/else with MVC Razor

The contents of a code block ({ ... }) are expected to be code, not markup.

If you want to put text directly in a code block, you have three choices:

• Wrap it in any HTML tag
• Wrap it in the special Razor <text> tag, which will just render the text without the tag
• Prepend the line with @:, which is equivalent

See SottGu’s blog post.