Home/ Questions/Q 7049699
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-05-28T03:03:13+00:00

Currently I have a page with navigation menu. This navigation menu get it items

  • 0

Currently I have a page with navigation menu. This navigation menu get it items and sub items from database.
I think that it would be easier for me to control it if I make it as a separate controller.
For example:

public class NavigationMenu : Controller
{
    public ActionResult Menu()
    {
        Model model = // Get items and sub items
        return View(model);
    }
}

Is this right way to make this or I shouldn’t do this from some reason?

And if I make it this Menu view will not have any master layout. Should I remove all <html><head><body>... html code from it or not?

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    We use this pattern, though we call it NavigationController, and the action method is TopTabs. We have it as a [ChildActionOnly], and return a partial view. To render the navigation in the layout, we use @Html.Action().

    I’d answer your question with a yes, and render the partial view as a child action in either your layout or your main views:

    [ChildActionOnly]
public class NavigationController : Controller
{
    public PartialViewResult CommonMenu()
    {
        Model model = // Get items and sub items
        return PartialView(model);
    }
}
    • 0