Self-AJAX-updating partial-view/controller in ASP.Net MVC and the duplicating div

Question

I have a partial view in MVC that goes something like:

    ...

Inside that div there\'s a form tha

Answer 1

I had this same problem in Asp.Net MVC 5.

I did not want the PartialView to have some knowledge about what div it might be contained within, so I did not accept that work around.

Then, I noticed the other answers referring to ReplaceWith and found the simple solution:

InsertionMode = InsertionMode.ReplaceWith

Now, the mvc partial view can completely replace itself with the ajax helpers without having any dependencies on names outside itself.