Partial View in MVC Razor

In general a Partial View is like a web user control in ASP.Net applications. Partial Views and User Controls serve the same purpose.

Uses of Partial Views

• A partial view can be used as a reusable component that can be called or used from multiple and different views.
  
  
• A partial view contains reusable mark-up if you want to render from inside multiple views.
  
  
• The partial view are used to render a consistent look like header, footer, comments and so on.

Rendering Partial View: We can render a partial view using one of the following 4:

1. Html.Partial
2. Html.RenderPartial
3. Html.Action
4. Html.RenderAction

Now in my example I will add a partial view. For this go to Solution Explorer then select Views -> Shared Folder -> Right-click -> Add View.


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Give a name to your View and check Create As a partial View as in the following:


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Now I am writing a line of text in this Partial View:


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Now for the Home controller, here I add a new action ShowMyPartialView(). So after it my Home Controller will look such as below:


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Now for the View -> Home -> Index.cshtml.

Here I am rendering a Partial View using 4 types, so the index.cshtml will be like the following:

@{
    ViewBag.Title = "Home Page";
}
@section featured {
    <section class="featured">
        <div class="content-wrapper">
            <hgroup class="title">
                <h1>@ViewBag.Title.</h1>
                <h2>@ViewBag.Message</h2>
            </hgroup>

        </div>
    </section>
}
<h3>Rendering Partial View:</h3>
<ol class="round">
    <li class="one">
        <h5>By Using Html.RenderPartial #</h5>
        @{Html.RenderPartial("MyPartial"); }
    </li>

    <li class="two">
        <h5>By Using Html.Partial #</h5>
        @Html.Partial("MyPartial")
    </li>

    <li class="three">
        <h5>By Using Html.RenderAction #</h5>
        @{Html.RenderAction("ShowMyPartialView", "Home");}
    </li>
    <li class="four">
        <h5>By Using Html.Action #</h5>
        @Html.Action("ShowMyPartialView");}
    </li>
</ol

Now run the application:


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