Using paging in partial view, asp.net mvc

Question

I'd greatly appreciate if someone could advise on following: In my view I display the list of items:

@model PagedList.IPagedList<Items>
@using PagedList.Mvc; 
 @foreach (var item in Model)
          {//displaying data}

my pager looks like this:

@Html.PagedListPager(Model, page => Url.Action("Index", new { humanID = ViewBag.HumanID, page = page }),
                                                             new PagedListRenderOptions
                                                             {
                                                                        LinkToFirstPageFormat = "<<",
                                                                        LinkToPreviousPageFormat = "prev",
                                                                        LinkToNextPageFormat = "next",
                                                                        LinkToLastPageFormat = ">>",

                                                              })

The problem is that when I click on the next page it is returned blank, without my _Layout. I wouldn't like to reload _Layout all the time. Is there a way to use Ajax.ActionLink for pager? So that I could UpdateTargedId inside my partial view?

Answer 1

You cannot use Ajax.ActionLink but you could AJAXify the links. Put the pager in a <div>:

<div id="myPager">
    @Html.PagedListPager(
        Model, 
        page => Url.Action(
            "Index", 
            new { 
                humanID = ViewBag.HumanID, 
                page = page 
            }
        ),
        new PagedListRenderOptions
        {
            LinkToFirstPageFormat = "<<",
            LinkToPreviousPageFormat = "prev",
            LinkToNextPageFormat = "next",
            LinkToLastPageFormat = ">>",
        }
    )
</div>

and then AJAXify the links:

$(function() {
    $('#myPager').on('click', 'a', function() {
        $.ajax({
            url: this.href,
            type: 'GET',
            cache: false,
            success: function(result) {
                $('#some_grid_container').html(result);
            }
        });
        return false;
    });
});

Notice that in the success callback I've used $('#some_grid_container') which should be some wrapping div around your entire table.