Convert PartialView to HTML [duplicate]

Absolutely, put the following method in a shared controller or a helper class. It will return the rendered view in HTML, the usage is self explainatory:

public static string RenderViewToString(ControllerContext context, string viewName, object model){    if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(viewName))        viewName = context.RouteData.GetRequiredString("action");    var viewData = new ViewDataDictionary(model);    using (var sw = new StringWriter())    {        var viewResult = ViewEngines.Engines.FindPartialView(context, viewName);        var viewContext = new ViewContext(context, viewResult.View, viewData, new TempDataDictionary(), sw);        viewResult.View.Render(viewContext, sw);        return sw.GetStringBuilder().ToString();    }}

I don't know if it is best practice or not, but if you left it as it is

return PartialView("_Product", model)

Then you can call the method using AJAX:

$.ajax ({  type: "POST",        url: _url,        data: _data,        success: function (result) {            // the result is the returned html from the partial view        }})