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Layout Nesting in ASP.NET MVC


ASP.NET MVC Layout Nesting

 This article is all about nesting layouts in MVC (master pages for WebForms). Sounds easy and it pretty much is until you come to using sections.
Sections appear to catch people out as they need to be declared in the Layout specified by the content page, so if you have a sub-layout calling a master layout, how do you pass over a scripts section from the content to the master layout. This might catch a couple of people out who consider themselves proficient in MVC. The answer is as simple as nesting the sections too.
It will be good to adhere to the scripts section as many people who deal with layouts will be used to that. Let consider a site that deals with Employee Management. The Employees are of different categories and let’s say we have a controller dedicated to the topic of Employee Department.
If we designed a page for HR department and it layout is completely different from that of Customer Service department and Finance Department.
We decided to use a stylesheet just for HR Department area of the site – no Customer or Finance styles.
What we should always put at the back of our minds when dealing with Nested Layout in ASP.NET MVC is the scripts section has to be nested also so as to have the effects of the scripts in the child layout.

As explained above, if we have HR department page with some menu or different visual effects which is specific to that layout and the general layout of the entire site, we can have all the scripts section defined in the master layout, that is, the jquery and CSS links in the script section of the master layout and nest the script section the HR specific Layout as shown below
  By nesting Layout in a view is to called a master layout within the head section of the child layout as shown below
layout master

In the master layout, we have to provide a script section as shown below
script section

Called the child layout in our view mean to specify the location of the layout in our view as shown below
child layout

In the child layout, we also nest the script section as shown below
nested script

 Complete Master Layout code
master layout code

complete Nested Layout code
nested layout code


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  1. UnknownMarch 9, 2020 at 3:16 PM

    I love the way you explained the concept of layout nesting Engineer. Thank you

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