How to use @RenderPage to include CSS content inline - MVC Razor
asp.net-mvc, css, html, razor
Solution
So, it turns out that `@RenderPage` is not what I was looking for...
what I needed is this:
`@Html.Raw(File.ReadAllText(Server.MapPath("~/CSS/_ExportStyles.min.css")))`
Problem
I am currently exporting a page from my project into Excel which will not allow the linking of external content e.g. external CSS. What I am trying to achieve is a simple way to include a CSS file in my `view` but to have it called directly from a CSS file which will have automatically been minified by Visual Studio. So, in my view I have tried this: ``` <style type="text/css"> @RenderPage("~/CSS/_ExportStyles.min.css") </style> ``` but doing this returns the following error: Server Error in '/' Application. The following file could not be rendered because its extension ".css" might not be supported: "~/CSS/_ExportStyles.min.css". What I know will work would be to place the CSS in a normal `.cshtml` file and include that, but I would lose the ability to `".min"` the file which keeps the file size small and allows me to automatically strip out comments etc.