i am new in mvc and i know only two way one can render partial view like
#Html.Partial("PartialView1")
another one is to load partial view using jquery. i like to know is there any other ways around to load partial view.
when i render partialview like this way from my action method
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Save(string name, string salary, string btnSubmit)
{
return PartialView("TestPView");
}
then PartialView content was render in page but shared look & feel goes out from the page when PartialView shown.
what i need to include in partial view as a result common look & feel show when partial view render. please guide me and show me all the various way to load partial view. thanks
Have a look at below link. It will help u to better understand the possible ways of rendering the partial views in MVC:
http://www.dotnet-tricks.com/Tutorial/mvc/Q8V2130113-RenderPartial-vs-RenderAction-vs-Partial-vs-Action-in-MVC-Razor.html
If I understand you correctly, what you are looking for is a layout and not a PartialView.
The PartialView provides you with the option to reuse a part of the view across several views.
The layout gives you the general look and feel of the website.
Here is the default example, that the VS generates for you :
#{ Layout = "~/Views/Shared/_Layout.cshtml"; }
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I have this contact form which I want to use on two pages (two views) in MVC 5.x (razor viewengine) So I have put the form in an partialview called _Contact and I have read that RenderAction is the best approach if you do not have the required data for the partialview in your model and if it is more standalone (seperate from the rest of the view)
So I call it like this:
#{ Html.RenderAction("SendMail", "Uk");}
My Uk controller has these two methods:
[HttpGet]
public PartialViewResult SendMail()
{
return PartialView("_Contact");
}
[HttpPost]
public PartialViewResult SendMail(FormCollection fc)
{
// send mail using values out of the form (sorry did not feel like building a complete model for it
ViewBag.Succeed = true;
// if smtpclient could not reach server etc. it returns false
return PartialView("_Contact");
}
it all works, but the PartialView is only rendered, not on the placeholder where i call the RenderAction. It works all great, but after the post it just displays the partial view and not the "parent view" and the shared layout view etc. I hope that I made myself clear. Please let me know if I need to add more info.
This is the BeginForm from my shared view:
using (Html.BeginForm("SendMail", "Uk", FormMethod.Post))
It will not work as expected for your current code, because when you post the form, it returns Partial View not complete View. If you want to get only partial view then you have to submit your form via Ajax.
In ajax's success handler you will get HTML of your partial view and that you can put in a DIV tag of partial view container.
This link will give you a better idea about Posting Partial View via Ajax.
ASP.NET MVC Partial view ajax post?
I'm very new to MVC and I am looking to put a list of links on the main layout(master page) based on database table. I'm sure I read before that you shouldn't try to load models on the master page but use Partial Views instead (correct me if I'm wrong).
I've looked on Google and on other questions here but they only seem to talk about passing data from a main view to a partial view via ViewBag but I think I just want to add a partial view that I can add to the master page.
Can someone please tell me how to create a partial view I can add to master page so its used on every page and be able to load the list of links required i.e. by binding IEnumerable model to Partial View?
Try using ChildActionExtensions.Action
In your layout:
#Html.Action("MyAction", "MyController")
Controller:
public ActionResult MyAction()
{
var list = // get your list values
return PartialView("MyViewName", list);
}
Then just create your partial view:
#model IEnumerable<WhateverType>
#* View goodness *#
You can use this to bind whatever model you need to your partial view and if you use the Action helper in your Layout.cshtml it'll be rendered on every page.
I am after creating something like a ContentResult, but have it render within the #RenderBody() tag of a masterpage. Is this possible? I can't seem to find a clear answer for it.
No; you can't do that.
Instead, you can make an empty Razor view that simply renders HTML from its model.
You can have an action method return a ContentResult, and then invoke it in the master page by doing:
#Html.Action("Action", "Controller")
I'm not sure what you mean by doing it in #RenderBody, but you can do it within the master page itself, or within each content page.
The content will be generated in the page; you could also use a partial view approach too.
I have a partial view that shows a list of Categories. I'd like to put that partial view on any page, but I'd like to have it to call to the service and get a list of categories by itself without me having to do that in every controller action. Something like webforms in which you can put a code-behind on it.
For eg.
Actions
public ActionResult Index()
{
JobListViewModel model = new JobListViewModel();
model.Categories= jobService.GetCategories();
return View(model);
}
public ActionResult Details(int id)
{
Job job = jobService.GetJob(id);
return View(job);
}
I created a partial that will take the model.Categories model and display a list. As you can see, the Index page will work fine, but I do not want to call it again in the Details page. Is there a way to make my partialview call to the GetCategories() service by itself?
Use Html.RenderAction - that gives the partial view its own controller action.
You should also mark you partial action with the attribute [ChildActionOnly].
DVark,
As noted in the accepted answer, for your scenario, RenderAction is the most appropriate.
I thought I'd link a little article that distils my thinking on the topic (i.e. when to use RenderPartial vs RenderAction):
http://cbertolasio.wordpress.com/2010/09/21/mvc-html-renderaction-vs-html-renderpartial/
hope it helps
[edit] - as an aside. a year or so ago, i got myself into a few scrapes by not appreciating the power of RenderAction, in favour of RenderPartial. as a result, i had littered the shared view space with lots of partialviews in order to access them from a variety of sources. the moral of the story: know your 'territory' before planting your flag.
In MonoRail you can just CancelLayout() to not render the layout. In ASP.NET MVC, the only way to affect the layout seems to be to pass the layout name into the View() method like View("myview", "mylayout"); only it seems that passing null or an empty string doesn't do what I'd want.
I ended up creating an empty layout that just rendered the content, but that seems silly.
"Not Render the layout" means exactly that. In the web forms view engine they call layouts "master pages". I want to render just my action's view and not surround it with the master page.
In MVC 3, you can remove the master layout code with:
#{
Layout = "";
}
At the beginning of view add this:
#{
Layout = null;
}
If you want style sheet to remain, you'll need to add reference to it in that view.
To disable this for all pages, edit the _ViewStart.cshtml (in the root, under the 'Views' folder), and ensure that it contains the following:
#{
Layout = null;
}
And to enable the template for any specific view, the following can be added to the .cshtml file for that view, to enable the template:
#{
Layout = "~/Views/Shared/_Layout.cshtml";
}
In the Controller action we can set the required layout.
return View("Index", "_LAYOUT_NAME", model);
https://stackoverflow.com/a/5161384/2039603
I see in the right answer it says that "It seems this was impossible in the version of ASP.NET MVC"
Which version are you using? Because I found the solution (I had the same issue) to your problem
So, to Disable Layout in the page, you should use:
#{
Layout = null;
}
And, as suggested here, this could solve your problem:
public ActionResult Index()
{
SampleModel model = new SampleModel();
//Any Logic
return View("Index", "_WebmasterLayout", model);
}
Instead of using a normal view, create a partial view. These can then be used on their own, which acts very much like CancelLayout() - or you can incorporate them into a view that references the Master Page, in which case it will be the full layout. They are also useful if you want to send back a partial HTML chunk in response to an AJAX request.
Not having any luck trying to set the masterPage parameter to "" or null and returning a View (like I didn't)?
Then try this and use PartialView instead:
public ActionResult Article(string id)
{
return PartialView("~/Areas/Store/Views/CustomerService/" + id);
}
I needed to do this to load the contents of a view asynchronously from JS.
It seems this was impossible in the version of ASP.NET MVC I was asking about.
You can create a custom ActionResult that does pretty much anything. The ActionResult controls what is sent back to the client as the response. It would be trivial to create a class that extends ActionResult that does nothing.
One alternative is to actually specify a layout but make that layout empty
"_EmptyLayout.cshtml" that contains nothing or just a comment that says it contains nothing so later someone sees it as intended.