Html.Partial vs Html.RenderPartial & Html.Action vs Html.RenderAction

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Ghooti Farangi picture Ghooti Farangi · Mar 9, 2011 · Viewed 587.9k times · Source

In ASP.NET MVC, what is the difference between:

  • Html.Partial and Html.RenderPartial
  • Html.Action and Html.RenderAction

Answer

GvS picture GvS · Mar 9, 2011

Html.Partial returns a String. Html.RenderPartial calls Write internally and returns void.

The basic usage is:

// Razor syntax
@Html.Partial("ViewName")
@{ Html.RenderPartial("ViewName");  }

// WebView syntax
<%: Html.Partial("ViewName") %>
<% Html.RenderPartial("ViewName"); %>

In the snippet above, both calls will yield the same result.

While one can store the output of Html.Partial in a variable or return it from a method, one cannot do this with Html.RenderPartial.

The result will be written to the Response stream during execution/evaluation.

This also applies to Html.Action and Html.RenderAction.

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