activating a different <div> with a partial view in my Layout.html by getting the name of controller action or view

Question

I'd like to get the name of my partial view in my layout page to determine which div is going to be active. Because of the design I cannot css this nicely so I went for a more sloppy approach.

In my _Layout.chtml The Renderbody loads my content. And here depending on which button I press, I get a map or a list. These are both functions in my controller and what I would like to do is get the functionname or partial view so I can then decide which I want to show.

so I wanted to do something like this in my _Layout.chtml

 @if ( get the controllername or view == mapname or listname)
                        {                  
                        <div>
                              @Html.Partial("tabMap")            
                        </div>
                        }
                        else
                        {
                        <div>
                              @Html.Partial("tabList")            
                        </div>    
                        }

Any quick fix to do this ?

Answer 1

access the RouteData dictionary from the ViewContext Object

will be like this

@ViewContext.RouteData.Values["Controller"]

with the RouteData Dictionary you can get all the info needed about the controller , action and extra parameters names , depending on them output the data you want