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Troy Mitchel
Troy Mitchel

Reputation: 1810

How to find page in folder when using master page asp.net

When my pages are in the main level of the solution, the menu item href can find the content pages. When I put the content pages in a subfolder and change the href path respectively it cannot find the page. This seems to only be a problem with MasterPages. Am I missing something here? I get the error Server Error in '/' Application The resource cannot be found HTTP 404. Requested URL: /Pages/Pages/Items.aspx

Why does it add another /Pages in front of my path?

Solution

Project
  +Images
  -Pages
      Items.aspx
      Library.aspx
  +Styles
  Default.aspx
  Site.Master

MasterPage

  <div id="tabdiv" class="tabdiv">
     <ul id="tabmenu" class="tabmenu">

         <li><a href="Pages/Items.aspx" class="separator">Items</a></li>
         <li><a href="Pages/Library.aspx">Library</a></li>

     </ul>
  </div>
  <div id="main" class="main">
       <asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="ContentPlaceHolder1" runat="server">
       </asp:ContentPlaceHolder>
  </div>

Upvotes: 3

Views: 5725

Answers (6)

Pankil Agrawal
Pankil Agrawal

Reputation: 75

Give a path like this.Include your Domain name.

<li><a href="http://example.com/Pages/Items.aspx" class="separator">Items</a></li>

Or You should use XML file or website path file.

Upvotes: 0

Cesar Alvarado Diaz
Cesar Alvarado Diaz

Reputation: 759

If your tag is "a href" you must put runat = "server" with their respective id = "lnkItem" then the code of the page from the server side you should write: 

lnkItem.HRef = ResolveUrl("~/Pages/Items.aspx");

If you are calling to another site you can use 'ResolveUrl': 

Response.Redirect(ResolveUrl("~/Pages/Items.aspx"));

Upvotes: 0

Alex Filipovici
Alex Filipovici

Reputation: 32571

Remove the Pages from the href. The master page is a wrapper for the .aspx pages' content, but you should use the relative path to the .aspx page when you provide the links inside the master page (given that all your pages are inside the Pages folder):

<li><a href="Items.aspx" class="separator">Items</a></li>
<li><a href="Library.aspx">Library</a></li>

Another option would be to prefix with /, which will render the link by using the root-relative link/root link/web-root relative link:

<li><a href="/Pages/Items.aspx" class="separator">Items</a></li>
<li><a href="/Pages/Library.aspx">Library</a></li>

Upvotes: 0

kostas ch.
kostas ch.

Reputation: 2035

Use thge above 

<a href="<%= Page.ResolveUrl("~/Pages/Items.aspx") %>" class="separator">Items</a>

Upvotes: 1

Brad Christie
Brad Christie

Reputation: 101614

Short answer, use an absolute path (to the root of your site) or use ~/ to relate all pages back to the site root (latter being more secure and robust between server location changes).

Reasoning?

  • When you're within the root (/) linking to Pages/Items.aspx combines these two: /Pages/Items.aspx.
  • When you're already in Pages/ you're now re-citing the same directory Pages/Items.aspx so you're getting a combined value of /Pages/Pages/Items.aspx.

When you want to link to items, have a look at the Control.ResolveUrl method. e.g.

<a href="<%= Page.ResolveUrl("~/Pages/Items.aspx") %>" class="separator">Items</a>

Now, no matter what page that link is embedded it, it still will provide an absolute path to that resource (in this case, Items.aspx).

Upvotes: 5

Deepak Saralaya
Deepak Saralaya

Reputation: 457

try like this

     <li><a href="~/Pages/Items.aspx" class="separator" runat="server">Items</a></li>
     <li><a href="~/Pages/Library.aspx" runat="server">Library</a></li>

Upvotes: 3

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