Using Shared Layouts with Razor Pages
Learn about utilizing ASP.NET Core layouts for efficient management, demonstrating through creating a layout.
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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 create a specially named file to set the default layout file for all Razor Pages (and all MVC views). This file must be ...