Razor ViewEngine: How do I escape the "@" symbol?

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I'm trying to output some Twitter handles in ASP.NET MVC3 in conjunction with the Twitter @Anywhere API, and I haven't been able to figure out how to actually escape the "@" symbol in a Razor view.

Does anyone know what the syntax is for escaping the "@" character in Razor?

I've tried using <text></text> and that results in a JIT error.

You can also use the HTML entity `@`. – rsenna Feb 24 '14 at 18:00 — rsenna, Feb 24 '14 at 18:00

score 164 · Accepted Answer · edited Aug 15 '17 at 02:05

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You have to use @@ to escape the @ symbol.

One important thing to notice is that you DO NOT need to escape the @ symbol when it exists within an email address. Razor should be smart enough to figure that out on its own.

edited Aug 15 '17 at 02:05

BSMP

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answered Mar 13 '11 at 05:35

JasCav

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, both syntax error in VS and parser error in runtime. – Tien Do Jul 25 '12 at 01:35
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@Tien see the last HTML character code here worked for me: http://stackoverflow.com/a/13584640/84206 – AaronLS Dec 27 '12 at 20:53

score 32 · Answer 2 · edited Jan 13 '20 at 21:48

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If you are adding Twitter meta tags

and your Twitter username is, say, foobar

it should look like this

<meta name="twitter:site" content=@("@foobar")>

edited Jan 13 '20 at 21:48

boop

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answered Jan 12 '16 at 18:09

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score 20 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 04 '11 at 15:40

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if you need to comment @ symbols in css code and just @@ wont work, use this:

@("@@font-face"){ ... css ...}

answered Apr 04 '11 at 15:40

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This is the best method as the HTML entity isn't helpful inside CSS. – ChrisF Jan 30 '14 at 21:06

score 4 · Answer 4 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:02

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I had yet another odd case: pass '@' + @Model.SomeProperty to a link href.

The best solution for this case was given IMO in this answer to a similar question. Both @@ and @: didn't work while using the html code @ would complicate things.

So, my code was <a href="~/path/?query=@('@')@Model.SomePropery">

@Html.Raw('@')@Model.SomePropery would have worked as well.

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answered Sep 03 '15 at 14:30

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Feb 03 '22 at 17:15

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If you are adding Schema.org JSON-LD Tags, @Matt's answer worked for me:

  ....
  @("@context"): "https://schema.org",
  ....

answered Feb 03 '22 at 17:15

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