Overriding Layout

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Hi!

I have created a page that displays a popup window when the user clicks on a link. In this popup window, the user can get a description of a certain element on the website (a little bit like a help system with popup windows). Unfortunately the popup window takes the layout of the controller and puts its content into. However this layout contains a big menu bar that shouldn't be displayed in the popup window. Is there a way - without creating a new controller - to override the layout for that controller for one action?

Thanks, Christoph

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You can specify actions to be ignored in the layout method:

layout 'site', :except => ['my_popup_action']

and also:

layout 'basic', :only => ['my_popup_action']

Steve