Question

I have a View that has a ‘intermediate’ layout, which in turn has a ‘base’ layout.

This creates a full web page. However, I want to do partial page updates using Ajax, but to be able to do that at two levels:

1. The View level with no layout – easy with PartialView()
2. The View with the intermediate layout but not the ‘base’ layout.

Is that possible?

Answer 1

In the controller action that is supposed to do case 2) you could pass to the view some information in the view model indicating this:

In the view:

@{
    if (Model.IsIntermediateLayout) {
        Layout = "IntermediateLayout.cshtml";
    }
}