The application I’m developing has a background gradient that I noticed flashing between liveviews so I inspected the dom and was surprised to see the layout re-rendered w/ each transition to a new liveview. I’m specifying the :layout and I’ve got a live_session wrapping the liveviews in the router …

Hello and welcome! [image] nicky: In the documentation it says live sessions keep the same layout Is says the root layout (:root_layout vs :layout) is not updated between redirects (if they share one), everything else is. This is the static layout generally shared between live views and de…

I was hoping I did something wrong :frowning_face: I appreciate your reply.

Have you tried creating a separate root layout specific to that live session? You should be able to do something like this: live_session :provider, root_layout: {ProviderWeb.Layouts, :provider_root}, If you wanted to keep a single root layout, you could move the shared unchanging parts of th…

thanks for the suggestion! the css attached to the layout was causing the issue so I created a plug that holds a list of css & js files that I loop through in the root layout. I’ll take your suggestion though and move the other common parts in the root layout behind a check.

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nicky October 17, 2023, 6:36pm 3

I was hoping I did something wrong

I appreciate your reply.