"The name 'HTML' does not exist in the current context" in MVC 3 Views

Apologies for the necro post.

Selecting "Build | Rebuild Solution" corrected this issue for me in Visual Studio 2015. In my case, the warnings occurred after renaming the primary namespace of a project. A rebuild set everything straight.

In my case my Packages folder was missing including MVC and Razor so I have updated packages in packages.config, reopened the view and it worked.

I'm using ASP .net core. Solved mine by upgrading `Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc` from `1.1.2` to `1.1.3`.

For me, I just restarted my Visual Studios and everything got fixed.

All I had to do was close all views that were open in the editor and rebuild.

Maybe I am a bit late to answer this question but this easy fix helped me:

Right click the file > Exclude from project.
Right click the file > Include in project.

I'm using dotnet core sdk 2.2 and Visual Studio Professional 2019.

This was caused by Visual Studio mangling code.

Code was pasted into the razor view. Visual Studio would attempt but then fail to auto-format it. Part of the failure resulted in deleting code.

Pressing ctrl+z reverted the formatting but kept the pasted code. The razor compilation errors were then fixed (`The name 'Html' does not exist in the current context`)

Disable format on paste (see

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) under Tools -> Options -> Text Editor -> HTML -> Advanced

All you need to do is Restart Visual Studio and check.

You could try some following point:

- Close the `View` with the false errors.
- Close visual studio.
- open project again.
- clean your solution
- Rebuild your solution.

hopefully you will not get any of the similar errors now.

If you still have same problem. than Please check following steps.

- Make sure you have `web.config` file inside view folder. Becuase `MVC` has two `web.config`. one for solution and other one for project.

Your `web.config` file will seems like this which is inside `views` folder.

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<configuration>
<configSections>
<sectionGroup name="system.web.webPages.razor" type="System.Web.WebPages.Razor.Configuration.RazorWebSectionGroup, System.Web.WebPages.Razor, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35">
<section name="host" type="System.Web.WebPages.Razor.Configuration.HostSection, System.Web.WebPages.Razor, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" requirePermission="false" />
<section name="pages" type="System.Web.WebPages.Razor.Configuration.RazorPagesSection, System.Web.WebPages.Razor, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" requirePermission="false" />
</sectionGroup>
</configSections>

<system.web.webPages.razor>
<host factoryType="System.Web.Mvc.MvcWebRazorHostFactory, System.Web.Mvc, Version=5.2.7.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" />
<pages pageBaseType="System.Web.Mvc.WebViewPage">
<namespaces>
<add namespace="System.Web.Mvc" />
<add namespace="System.Web.Mvc.Ajax" />
<add namespace="System.Web.Mvc.Html" />
<add namespace="System.Web.Optimization"/>
<add namespace="System.Web.Routing" />
<add namespace="Your Project Name" />
</namespaces>
</pages>
</system.web.webPages.razor>

<appSettings>
<add key="webpages:Enabled" value="false" />
</appSettings>

<system.webServer>
<handlers>
<remove name="BlockViewHandler"/>
<add name="BlockViewHandler" path="*" verb="*" preCondition="integratedMode" type="System.Web.HttpNotFoundHandler" />
</handlers>
</system.webServer>

<system.web>
<compilation>
<assemblies>
<add assembly="System.Web.Mvc, Version=5.2.7.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" />
</assemblies>
</compilation>
</system.web>
</configuration>

It worked for me. and hope for you also.

Close Visual Studio => Delete the obj and bin folders located in your project => Start Visual Studio