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Kyasa Madhavi
Kyasa Madhavi

Reputation: 705

Slash (/) vs tilde slash (~/) in style sheet path

ASP.NET offers two ways to specify paths for style sheets:

<link href="/common/black_theme/css/style.css" rel="stylesheet">   (this is working)
<link href="~/common/black_theme/css/style.css" rel="stylesheet">  (this is not working)

As per my knowledge, ~ represents the root directory of the application. "common" is the folder below the website root (named testsite.demo) in IIS.

Physical path: D:\Physicalpath\WarpFirstSite\testsite.demo
"common" folder: D:\Physicalpath\WarpFirstSite\testsite.demo\common

Upvotes: 55

Views: 50409

Answers (3)

Gaurav Agrawal
Gaurav Agrawal

Reputation: 4431

If you add runat="server" in your link tag then it would works perfectly....

like this....

<link href="~/common/black_theme/css/style.css" rel="stylesheet" runat="server">

(this is also working)

Upvotes: 8

CRice
CRice

Reputation: 12567

The second won't work because its not a recognised path by anything except asp.net code on the server side. And since your link tag is regular html and not a server control it never gets processed.

Upvotes: 12

Oded
Oded

Reputation: 499022

  • / - Site root
  • ~/ - Root directory of the application

The difference is that if you site is:

http://example.com

And you have an application myapp on:

http://example.com/mydir/myapp

/ will return the root of the site (http://example.com),

~/ will return the root of the application (http://example.com/mydir/).

Upvotes: 103

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