mvc3 calling PartialViews inside ActionResult to put inside DIVs

Question

Quick Recap:I have a car website and I have a simple ActionResult with authorization each user that has access to that Controller will have 1 Make of car either a BMW,Honda,Ford or Kia, so that as soon as they login they see the make of car's automatically. I already have the PartialView set but my question is how can I from the ActionResult call the PartialView and fit it inside a DIV within the View?

 [Authorize]
    public ActionResult Mycars()
    {

// How can I return a PartialView here and put it inside a DIV like
// the partialview is called "Mymakes" and its a PartialViewResult
// I just can't seem to put it inside a DIV from here
        return View();

    }

As said the PartialViewResult works perfectly I have tested it using Ajax.BeginForm now just trying to render it automatically in the ActionResult any tips would be great !!

Answer 1

in your main view (Mycars), use @Html.Action()

you will create the corresponding Action in your controller (you can set the attribute [ChildActionOnly], and it can be of type PartialViewResult

You will then create the (partial) View corresponding to that PartialViewResult, and... that's it.