Nested layouts

[Artem Smirnov]

Hi,

I'm trying to use nested layouts in my FubuMVC application. For some reason, I see only the 2nd level master, but not the topmost one.

\Shared\Content.spark:

<!-- Content.spark -->
<main class="container">
	<use:view />
</main>

(also tried placing <use master="Application"/> at the top)

Output:

<!-- Content.spark -->
<main class="container">
(...)
</main>

How do I make Content.spark use the Application.spark master?

Artёm

[Robert Greyling]

Hi Artem,

There are a few things that cloud the issue for me. Not sure what your <main> tag is - is that a partial or a Binding of some kind? Also, I'm not sure if nested layouts are supported in the Fubu side since that code was revamped a few times as the framework changed since I only did the original implementation.

Have you tried using partials instead of layouts to test your nesting?

I would need to see a fair bit more code before I had any idea if yours had issues I could spot.

Hope that helps,

Rob

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[Artem Smirnov]

"main" is just an html5 tag. Changing it to "div" haven't changed anything.

Here's my page's code:

<viewdata model="ChpokkWeb.Features.ReadMe.ReadMeModel" />
<use namespace="ChpokkWeb.Features.ReadMe" />
<use master="Content" />
!{Model.Title}

Both Content.spark and Application.spark are in the /Shared folder. I can see that my page uses Content.spark, but the latter won't use Application.spark. Not sure I understand how to test my nesting using partials.

What's the canonical way of using nested layouts in Spark? How does the 2nd level master look like?

[Robert Greyling]

Hi Artem,

You can look here for the canonical way of using Layouts: https://github.com/SparkViewEngine/spark/wiki/Master-Layouts

I'm not exactly sure how much of that Fubu actually implements, but in my eyes, the theory is that you should able to put a tag in your Content.spark that says <use master"Application" /> and it should render Application --> Content --> View

Again, I'm not 100% sure Fubu has implemented that, but I would hope it works out the box as long as the views are located by Fubu and presented to Spark correctly.

Hope that helps,

Rob

[Artem Smirnov]

Hi Rob,

I think my problem was that I first had the 2nd level master one folder level up, and it was picking it rather than the one in the \Shared folder

So finally it worked for me, just like you said:

<use master="Application" />
<!-- Content.spark -->
<div class="container">
	<use:view />
</div>

Thanks a lot for your help!

Artem

[Robert Greyling]

No probs, glad it worked :)