Disable layout in ASP.NET MVC?

In MVC 3, you can remove the master layout code with:

 @{ Layout = ""; } 

At the beginning of view add this:

@{ Layout = null; } 

If you want style sheet to remain, you'll need to add reference to it in that view.

To disable this for all pages, edit the _ViewStart.cshtml (in the root, under the 'Views' folder), and ensure that it contains the following:

@{ Layout = null; } 

And to enable the template for any specific view, the following can be added to the .cshtml file for that view, to enable the template:

@{ Layout = "~/Views/Shared/_Layout.cshtml"; } 

In the Controller action we can set the required layout.

return View("Index", "_LAYOUT_NAME", model); 

https://stackoverflow.com/a/5161384/2039603

I see in the right answer it says that "It seems this was impossible in the version of ASP.NET MVC"

Which version are you using? Because I found the solution (I had the same issue) to your problem

So, to Disable Layout in the page, you should use:

@{ Layout = null; } 

And, as suggested here, this could solve your problem:

public ActionResult Index() { SampleModel model = new SampleModel(); //Any Logic return View("Index", "_WebmasterLayout", model); } 

Instead of using a normal view, create a partial view. These can then be used on their own, which acts very much like CancelLayout() - or you can incorporate them into a view that references the Master Page, in which case it will be the full layout. They are also useful if you want to send back a partial HTML chunk in response to an AJAX request.

Not having any luck trying to set the masterPage parameter to "" or null and returning a View (like I didn't)?

Then try this and use PartialView instead:

 public ActionResult Article(string id) { return PartialView("~/Areas/Store/Views/CustomerService/" + id); } 

I needed to do this to load the contents of a view asynchronously from JS.

You can create a custom ActionResult that does pretty much anything. The ActionResult controls what is sent back to the client as the response. It would be trivial to create a class that extends ActionResult that does nothing.

One alternative is to actually specify a layout but make that layout empty "_EmptyLayout.cshtml" that contains nothing or just a comment that says it contains nothing so later someone sees it as intended.

If any of the methods work, you can as well try this Duo:

@{ Layout = null; Layout = ""; } 

This worked for me after a long wait.