In ASP.NET MVC, what is the difference between:
Html.Partial and Html.RenderPartial
Html.Action and Html.RenderAction
In ASP.NET MVC, what is the difference between:
Html.Partial and Html.RenderPartial
Html.Action and Html.RenderAction
Html.Action
invokes the controller's action, which means it instantiates the controller entity, calls an action method, which builds a model an returns a view result.
Html.Partial
uses already created model (or can be called without model at all) to render a specified view.
When to use one over the other? If you already have a model and just want to have a reusable view, opt to Html.Partial
. If you see that some piece deserves its own model and action, maybe it makes sense to use Html.Action
.
This question is discussed in much greater details in this article, and what you see above is basically an excerpt from it.