Using Shared Layouts with Razor Pages
Explore the use of shared layouts in ASP.NET Core Razor Pages to manage common HTML markup efficiently. Learn to create _Layout.cshtml and _ViewStart.cshtml files, dynamically set page titles with ViewData, and organize reusable page components that enhance maintainability across multiple pages.
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Most websites have more than one page. If every page had to contain all of the current boilerplate markup in index.cshtml, that would become a pain to manage. So, ASP.NET Core has a feature named layouts.
Method to use layouts
To use layouts, we must create a Razor file to define the default layout for all Razor Pages (and all MVC views) and store it in a Shared folder to easily find it by convention. The name of this file can be anything because we will specify it, but _Layout.cshtml is good practice. We must also ...