MVC 3 Razor Engine and Html Tags

Question

The Razor view engine automatically differentiates between Server code and Html Code For example this code works very fine

@if (DateTime.Now.Year == 1983) 
{
  if (DateTime.Now.Month == 9) 
  {
    <p>Wow, this month Shay is born!</p>
  }
} 
else 
{
 <p>It's the new millenium dude!</p>
}

But if I want to show html tags or anchor tags in the text then what escape character should I use?

Like in the above example I want to show the else message like this

else 
{
 <p>It's the new <millenium> dude!</p>
}

Answer 1

Use regular HTML escape sequences: <millenium>

Answer 2

You have to use

<p>It's the new &lt;millenium$gt; dude!</p>

But that's not a Razor issue, it's HTML. If you want to display < or > you have to use the HTML entities instead.