How do I conditionally add in a div and attributes? - asp.net

Question

Here is some code on my ASP.NET site. I initially wanted to write
if((n%4)==0) {
<div>
}
//code
if((n%4)==0) {
</div>
}
but ASP.NET wouldn't have it. It had a compile error. It appears it ignores } until I close the div. So I ended up with the below. The if statement causes me the same problem. I know I can conditionally have values by writing class="#(cond?"val":"")" but that only works for values I don'
t know how to conditionally have checked in there. Having the same line written 4 times is pretty ridiculous how do I write this properly?
<div>
#for (int i = 1, n = 0; i < 32; i <<= 1, ++n)
{
if ((looking & i) != 0)
{
<input type="checkbox" name="SomeName" value="#i" id="SomeName_#i" checked>
}
else
{
<input type="checkbox" name="SomeName" value="#i" id="SomeName_#i">
}
<label for="SomeName_#i">#TestApp.Controllers.HomeController.enumFriendlyName[n]</label><br />
}
</div>
<div>
#for (int i = 32, n = 4; i < 256; i <<= 1, ++n)
{
if ((looking & i) != 0)
{
<input type="checkbox" name="SomeName" value="#i" id="SomeName_#i" checked>
}
else
{
<input type="checkbox" name="SomeName" value="#i" id="SomeName_#i">
}
<label for="SomeName_#i">#TestApp.Controllers.HomeController.enumFriendlyName[n]</label><br />
}
</div>

Answer 1

I assume you are talking about razor here. I'll start with attributes.. the trick is to use the html helper rather than writing the html by hand.
#Html.Label("Name", "LabelText")
#Html.CheckBox("Name", isChecked)
Also, for the CheckBox and other helpers you can pass and htmlAttributes anon function, if the value you specify for the attribute evals to null, the attribute won't be included in the rendered html.
What are you doing with the divs? Perhaps if you tell us what you want to do we can suggest something. Are you trying to stripe, because you can do that with CSS.
So, rather than the code duplication you could possible use a partial as the content for each div:
<div class="left">
#Html.Partial(_controls, model)
</div>
<div class="right">
#Html.Partial(_controls, model)
</div>
Or something. I may have the syntax wrong, but basically you can pass a model to your partial which can contain the range of items you want.
The model can be like new { start = 1, finish = 32 }