ASP.NET Razor with JavaScript 'less than' symbol (<) can't be parsed

Question

I am trying to combine some javascript with server-side variable.

Here I'm trying to replace the "<" sign with the actual less than sign:

@{
  string age = '<1'; // assume I got it from the QueryString 
  <text>$('#select1').val('@age'.replace('&lt;','<'));</text> // and when the parser sees the '<' symbol it thinks I'm trying to close the <text> tage
}

Is there any way that symbol can be escaped/ignored?

Answer 1

I ended up using @(Html.Raw("<"))

Answer 2

Try this:

Note, it does have to be between script tags for it to work.. (I'm assuming this is the case though)

<script>
@{
  string age = '&lt;1'; // assume I got it from the QueryString 
  @: $('#select1').val('@age'.replace('&lt;','<')); // and when the parser sees the '<' symbol it thinks I'm trying to close the <text> tage
}
</script>

Update

Incidently, the text syntax you used above will also work (instead of @:).. specifically what is causing the problem in your example is not the < in the javascript, rather the second

<text>

in the comment