Nested layouts for MVC5

Question

I\'ve seen a few posts on this topic:

Razor Nested Layouts with Cascading Sections

MVC 3 - Nested layouts - sections don't render in Areas

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Answer 1

I know it's an old question. I thought I'd share this anyway in case anyone else runs into this (like I did).

At the bottom of your child layout, you define a section with the same name as the section in the parent layout. Inside of this section you simply put a @RenderSection, again specifying the same name as before. Once this is in place, you essentially have the child layout "bypass" content from pages, up to its parent layout:

@section breadcrumbs {
    @RenderSection("breadcrumbs", true)
}

Answer 2

Not sure if you still need help, but I'll answer anyways.

There RenderSection method takes the following parameters according to the MSDN Documentation:

public HelperResult RenderSection( string name, bool required )

Parameters
name
     Type: System.String
     The section to render.
required
     Type: System.Boolean
     true to specify that the section is required; otherwise, false.

Change the call to:

@RenderSection("breadcrumbs", false);

If the section "required" parameter is false, it will not give an error if that section is not included by a view.