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**Created:** [July 20, 2006, 1:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/using-application-rhtml-as-layout-for-all-controllers/99050 "2006-07-20T01:10:07Z")\
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**Author:**  [@blewis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/blewis)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2006, 1:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/using-application-rhtml-as-layout-for-all-controllers/99050/1 "2006-07-20T01:10:07Z")
I put my nav system in application layout. that way any controller
loading will have the nav system. I have one problem though - the \<%=
yield %\> is in the body, so how would my controllers specify other css
files?
my application layout would look like this:
title css include javascript include nav system \<%=yield%\>
so that means any controllers go into the body immediatly - so can they
not have their own css files without specifying them in application
layout?
Thanks,
Ben L.
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**Author:**  [@blewis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/blewis)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2006, 1:18am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/using-application-rhtml-as-layout-for-all-controllers/99050/2 "2006-07-20T01:18:54Z")
On 7/19/06, Ben L. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:
> I put my nav system in application layout. that way any controller
> loading will have the nav system. I have one problem though - the \<%=
> yield %\> is in the body, so how would my controllers specify other css
> files?
Check out the Cascading Stylesheets Plugin:
[http://www.redhillconsulting.com.au/rails\_plugins.html#cascading\_stylesheets](http://www.redhillconsulting.com.au/rails_plugins.html#cascading_stylesheets)
It will let you have a seperate style sheet for application →
controller →
action
Josh
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**Author:**  [@blewis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/blewis)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2006, 1:45am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/using-application-rhtml-as-layout-for-all-controllers/99050/3 "2006-07-20T01:45:38Z")
Ripped off from a post yesterday (Credit to Richard L.), this may
help…
Take a look at:
[http://api.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActionView/Helpers/CaptureHelper.html](http://api.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActionView/Helpers/CaptureHelper.html)
Specifically:
In your layout:
... stuff \<%= @content\_for\_head %\>
In your template:
\<% content\_for(“head”) do %\>
the javascript / include js file
\<% end %\>
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**Author:**  [@blewis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/blewis)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2006, 1:31am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/using-application-rhtml-as-layout-for-all-controllers/99050/4 "2006-07-20T01:31:28Z")
Josh K. wrote:
> On 7/19/06, Ben L. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:
>
> > I put my nav system in application layout. that way any controller
> > loading will have the nav system. I have one problem though - the \<%=
> > yield %\> is in the body, so how would my controllers specify other css
> > files?
>
> Check out the Cascading Stylesheets Plugin:
> [http://www.redhillconsulting.com.au/rails\_plugins.html#cascading\_stylesheets](http://www.redhillconsulting.com.au/rails_plugins.html#cascading_stylesheets)
>
> It will let you have a seperate style sheet for application →
> controller →
> action
>
> Josh
awesome thanks Josh!
-Ben L.
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**Author:**  [@blewis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/blewis)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2006, 1:45am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/using-application-rhtml-as-layout-for-all-controllers/99050/5 "2006-07-20T01:45:48Z")
Hello Ben,
> I put my nav system in application layout. that way any controller
> loading will have the nav system. I have one problem though - the \<%=
> yield %\> is in the body, so how would my controllers specify other css
> files?
You can specify parts of code that will be used in layout, like with
yield /
@content\_for\_layout system.
yield :foo is the same as @content\_for\_foo, but the first syntax
is now preferred.
> my application layout would look like this:
>
> title css include javascript include
here put a \<%= yield :specific\_css %\> for example.
> nav system \<%=yield%\>
And in your view :
\<% content\_for :specific\_css do -%\>
\<%= stylesheet\_link\_tag “foo” %\>
other code if you want…
\<% end -%\>
See
[http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/CaptureHelper.html#M000528](http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/CaptureHelper.html#M000528)
for further information.
> so that means any controllers go into the body immediatly - so can they
> not have their own css files without specifying them in application
> layout?
РJean-Fran̤ois.