title: ASP.NET MVC - PartialView not refreshing
body: <p>I have a view that uses a javascript callback to reload a partial view.  For whatever reason the contents of the partial class do not refresh even though i can step through the entire process and see the page being recalled and populated.  Any reason why the page would not display?</p>
  
  <p>Code is as follows:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;div id="big_image_content"&gt;
                      &lt;% Html.RenderPartial("ZoomImage", Model); %&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This link should reload the div above:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="$('#big_image_content').load('/ShopDetai/ZoomImage?image_item=something&amp;image_room_scene=something&amp;category=something');"
  title="&lt;%= shape.Shape %&gt;" alt="&lt;%= shape.Shape %&gt;"&gt;
    &lt;img src="http://images.rugs-direct.com/&lt;%= shape.Image.ToLower() %&gt;" width="40"   alt="&lt;%= shape.Shape %&gt;"&gt;
  &lt;/a&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>partial view(ZoomImage.ascx) simplified for now, but still doesn't load:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;%@ Control Language="C#" Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewUserControl&lt;RugsDirect.Data.ItemDetailsModel&gt;" %&gt;
  
  &lt;%= Model.Category.ToLower()%&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And finally the controller side of things:</p>
  
  <pre><code>    public ActionResult ZoomImage(string image_item, string image_room_scene, string category)
      {
          try {
              ItemDetailsModel model = GetMainImageContentModel(image_item, image_room_scene, category);
  
  
              return PartialView("ZoomImage", model);
          }
          catch (Exception ex)
          {
              //send the error email
              ExceptionPolicy.HandleException(ex, "Exception Policy");
  
              //redirect to the error page
              return RedirectToAction("ViewError", "Shop");
          }
      }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Again, i can step through this entire process and all seems to be working accept for the page not reloading.  I can even break on the &lt;%= Model.Category.ToLower()%> of the partial view, but it will not be displayed.  </p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance,
  Billy</p>