# Question about layout **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [July 24, 2006, 2:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-about-layout/99611 "2006-07-24T14:40:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lukasz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/0ea827/32.png) [@Lukasz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Lukasz)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2006, 2:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-about-layout/99611/1 "2006-07-24T14:40:54Z")
Hey, I couldn’t find answer for this question for quite long, I hope some one will explain to me why layout specified in application.rb is not displayed properly on all views? I mean some divs are displayed wrong or without layout at all… let’s say login.rhtml has layout on its own and now it works ( exactly this same as project.rhtml which is layout for the whole project… ) but when I have this layout “project” in login\_controller it does not work ( it is from app.rb ) So why is it so? That some views are not displaying layout correctly at all or just partialy ? Thanks a million Lukasz ---
**Author:** ![Lukasz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/0ea827/32.png) [@Lukasz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Lukasz)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2006, 4:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-about-layout/99611/2 "2006-07-24T16:38:57Z")
Hi Lukasz, Lukasz wrote: > I mean some divs are displayed wrong > or without layout at all… let’s say login.rhtml has layout on its own > and now it works ( exactly this same as project.rhtml which is layout > for the whole project… ) but when I have this layout “project” in > login\_controller it does not work ( it is from app.rb ) So why is it so? > That some views are not displaying layout correctly at all or just > partialy ? I’m not sure this will help since I don’t know much about the details of your app and am not sure I understand your problem statement 100%, but the basic rules for the view-layout hierarchy is that the view file that’s rendered will be 1) one in the app/views/ directory that’s named after the controller action, 2) the one that’s specified by the controller action (ie, through a render :something), or 3) application.rhtml. hth, Bill ---
**Author:** ![Lukasz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/0ea827/32.png) [@Lukasz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Lukasz)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2006, 12:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-about-layout/99611/3 "2006-07-25T00:02:01Z")
Hey Bill, Thanks for response but thats not what I mean - acctualy You are right I was not very clear. Here I will try to explain my problem in more details. I have login controler with login method (so I have app/views/login.rhtm) and I have manage\_users controler with delete add and edit methods on it … (done by scaffolding) and therefor I need them all to share this same layout… I specified layout in application.rb but it seems that only manage\_users has it… login.rhtml seems to have only some of it (even if it uses this same divs! ) I created a new one called login.rhtml inside /app/view/layout and it looks fine now but that annoys me cos it will require me to create a new layout file for each view which is not what I want 🙂 I need them to share one layout… How it is now ? Thanks again. Cheers, Lukasz Bill W. wrote: > Hi Lukasz, > > Lukasz wrote: > > > I mean some divs are displayed wrong > > or without layout at all… let’s say login.rhtml has layout on its own > > and now it works ( exactly this same as project.rhtml which is layout > > for the whole project… ) but when I have this layout “project” in > > login\_controller it does not work ( it is from app.rb ) So why is it so? > > That some views are not displaying layout correctly at all or just > > partialy ? > > I’m not sure this will help since I don’t know much about the details of > your app and am not sure I understand your problem statement 100%, but > the > basic rules for the view-layout hierarchy is that the view file that’s > rendered will be 1) one in the app/views/ directory that’s named after > the > controller action, 2) the one that’s specified by the controller action > (ie, > through a render :something), or 3) application.rhtml. > > hth, > Bill ---
**Author:** ![Lukasz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/0ea827/32.png) [@Lukasz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Lukasz)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2006, 12:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-about-layout/99611/4 "2006-07-25T00:28:52Z")
Lukasz, by default all controllers in your app will render app/views/layouts/application.rhtml. You don’t need to specify that in the application.rb. In your application.rhtml file you should have the following command in the body: \<%= yield %\> (previously this was \<%= @content\_for\_layout %\> which should also work. this will insert into that spot any content in the specific rhtml for that controller/method (ie, app/views/login/login.rhtml) if you have a controller named login with a method named login. Lukasz wrote: > I have login controler with login method (so I have > app/views/login.rhtm) and I have manage\_users controler with delete add > and edit methods on it … (done by scaffolding) and therefor I need > them all to share this same layout… I specified layout in > application.rb but it seems that only manage\_users has it… > login.rhtml seems to have only some of it (even if it uses this same > divs! ) I created a new one called login.rhtml inside /app/view/layout > and it looks fine now but that annoys me cos it will require me to > create a new layout file for each view which is not what I want 🙂 I > need them to share one layout…