Razor: Render does not work inside code block

Question

This seems very strange to me, if I do

@RenderSection("scripts", required: false)

then it works perfectly fine, but if I do

@{ RenderSection("scripts", required: false); }

then the scripts section will not get rendered and I would get "The following sections have been defined but have not been rendered for the layout page "~/Views/Shared/_Layout.cshtml": "scripts"." error

Any idea why RenderSection/Script.Render cannot be inside a code block?

Edit: I have tried to put a break point inside the code block and the break point is getting hit when the page loads, and the RenderSection method executes without any exception

meziantou · Accepted Answer · 2014-04-03 20:17:22Z

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RenderSection does not write anything. Instead this methods returns an HelperResult which implements IHtmlString and can be render to the page by using its WriteTo method.

@{ HelperResult renderSection = RenderSection("scripts", required: false); renderSection.WriteTo(Output); }

When using @RenderSection it automatically render it to the page

answered Apr 3, 2014 at 20:17

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6 Comments

Steve Over a year ago

so it means @ and @{} syntax are actually different in some ways?

Erik Funkenbusch Over a year ago

@Steve they are very different. @{} is a code block, @ is not

meziantou Over a year ago

@RenderSection and @(RenderSection) are equivalents, but @{RenderSection} is totally different.

Steve Over a year ago

@ErikFunkenbusch mind point out the difference between those two? always thought they would do the same thing, except one is for one line and the other one is for multiple

meziantou Over a year ago

@steve odetocode.com/blogs/scott/archive/2013/01/09/…

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