Is it OK to put JavaScript in Partial Views

Question

I’m working on the web app where the main page contains two parts: the constant block which is always visible and the info-block made up by one of 3 partial views. Each of t

Answer 1

If you want to write partial views that are encapsulated "widgets" that just work once you include them in a page, then embedding a script block inside the partial view is one clean way to wrap the markup and the initialization script together in a partial view. For example, I might have a partial view named "_EventList" that I use throughout my site. If I place in two places on my master page it should just work and I prefer not to have to write logic in my master page to initialize the widget.

If you will never use it more than once in a page, its simple. But if you might, then wrap the script so it doesn't execute twice. See below. For the sake of Stack Overflow snippets I simulate it by repeating the partial view twice in the code snippet to represent including a partial view twice in a master page.

My master page might look like:

   @Html.Partial("_EventList")           






   @Html.Partial("_EventList")

Example:

    
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