Partial views are views that can be reused across your application. Partial views can be thought of as pluggable, reusable blocks that you can call from anywhere and have the content of the partial view displayed. The difference between layouts and partial view is that layouts surround our pages, whereas partial views are contained within our pages.
Consider the following structure of a web page—it's the same layout page that we used earlier, but with a couple of changes. The Latest News block has been added to the Side Section and the Login block has been added to the Top Section. These blocks are not restricted to the Top Section or Side Section and can be used anywhere in your application, including your Content Section, as shown in the following figure:
These partial views are not restricted to static content and can contain form elements. In...