diff --git a/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Razor.Extensions/ViewComponentTagHelperPass.cs b/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Razor.Extensions/ViewComponentTagHelperPass.cs
index 64218e7d02..76b025e1a4 100644
--- a/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Razor.Extensions/ViewComponentTagHelperPass.cs
+++ b/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Razor.Extensions/ViewComponentTagHelperPass.cs
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ namespace Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Razor.Extensions
             RazorIRBuilder.Create(statement)
                 .Add(new RazorIRToken()
                 {
+                    Kind = RazorIRToken.TokenKind.CSharp,
                     Content = writer.Builder.ToString()
                 });
 
diff --git a/test/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Razor.Extensions.Test/ViewComponentTagHelperPassTest.cs b/test/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Razor.Extensions.Test/ViewComponentTagHelperPassTest.cs
index be377e9b23..9dc91db1d1 100644
--- a/test/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Razor.Extensions.Test/ViewComponentTagHelperPassTest.cs
+++ b/test/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Razor.Extensions.Test/ViewComponentTagHelperPassTest.cs
@@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ public class __Generated__TagCloudViewComponentTagHelper : Microsoft.AspNetCore.
 ",
                 tokenNode.Content,
                 ignoreLineEndingDifferences: true);
+            Assert.Equal(tokenNode.Kind, RazorIRToken.TokenKind.CSharp);
         }
 
         [Fact]
@@ -194,6 +195,7 @@ public class __Generated__TagCloudViewComponentTagHelper : Microsoft.AspNetCore.
 ",
                 tokenNode.Content,
                 ignoreLineEndingDifferences: true);
+            Assert.Equal(tokenNode.Kind, RazorIRToken.TokenKind.CSharp);
         }
 
         [Fact]
@@ -278,6 +280,7 @@ public class __Generated__TagCloudViewComponentTagHelper : Microsoft.AspNetCore.
 ",
                 tokenNode.Content,
                 ignoreLineEndingDifferences: true);
+            Assert.Equal(tokenNode.Kind, RazorIRToken.TokenKind.CSharp);
         }
 
         private RazorCodeDocument CreateDocument(string content)