What is @RenderSection in asp.net MVC

October 13, 2022 by Tarik

If you have a _Layout.cshtml view like this

<html>
    <body>
        @RenderBody()
        @RenderSection("scripts", required: false)
    </body>
</html>

then you can have an index.cshtml content view like this

@section scripts {
     <script type="text/javascript">alert('hello');</script>
}

the required indicates whether or not the view using the layout page must have a scripts section