Can I have/chain more than 1 _Layout pages in MVC 3? for a cshtml page?

Question

I have a layout page and some pages that use it. But I want to implement a navigation control on some of the sub-pages that use it. So I want to use another nested layout page.

Answer 1

Yes, it works great. Just tell your layout page to use another layout page

@{ Layout = "pathToMyOtherLayout"; }

You can also use sections to pass through to the parent layouts. For example:

@Section Headers {@RenderSection("Headers")}