Render HTML file in ASP.NET MVC view?

Question

In my view, would like to render the contents of an HTML file as a partial view. It is giving me this error though when I add this to the .cshtml view:

@Html.Partial(Url.Content("~/Test/main.html")) 

Errors:

Exception Details: System.InvalidOperationException: The partial view '/Scripts/main.html' was not found or no view engine supports the searched locations. The following locations were searched: /Scripts/main.html 

The file is physically there though. Is there a different way I should be doing this?

Answer 1

You can't use Html.Partial for this.It is a special helper method for rendering Partial Views. Instead you can add an Action like this:

[ChildActionOnly] public ActionResult GetHtmlPage(string path) {    return new FilePathResult(path, "text/html"); } 

And you can call it from your View with using Html.Action helper Method:

@Html.Action("GetHtmlPage","controllername", new { path = "~/Test/main.html" }) 

Answer 2

I think it's a better solution: Use WriteFile from the Response object

@Response.WriteFile(pathToMyHtmlFile) 

taken from here