Can I conditionally render partial views in _Layout.cshtml?

Question

Suppose I have a _Layout.cshtml where I render a left sidebar, which is common to every page of my website. Something along these lines - a menu, for example ``` ``` A feature I would like to have would be to add another partial view, but only display it in certain sections of the website. For example, in the blog section I may want to display a list of post categories or a treeview of the posts. ``` ``` How could I do that? I know that I want to display "_BlogTreeView" if the view I'm rendering is returned by BlogController ... where do I go from there?

Accepted Answer

In your layout, add this `section`

```
@RenderSection("blogEntries", false)
```

Then in every view where you want to show the partial view add this:

```
@section blogEntries {
    @Html.Action("_BlogTreeView", "BlogEntries")
}
```

Can I conditionally render partial views in _Layout.cshtml?

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