Ok, so I'm using master pages and I love it. But the problem is that the pathing changes for subdirectories like crazy so images and links and everything have to be root pathed. Which would be fine if I could get the development server to load my project up in the root, but I can't figure out how to make it do that.

Is there some way to do relative pathing to the root of the project al-la the ~ in the page headers etc?

Thanks!

Geminiman wrote:

Is there some way to do relative pathing to the root of the project al-la the ~ in the page headers etc?

Yes, use the "~" syntax. This will build a path that's relative to the root of the application (not the site). Since you know about "~", what problems do you sem to be running into when trying to use it?

-Brock

If I use the ~ in an image path, it doesn't work:

<img src="~/Images/SomeImage.jpg">

results in this in the source of the page viewed from the browser:

http://localhost:90/WebSite/Products/~/Images/CenterTopCenter.jpg

when I right click on the image that isn't displaying correctly.

Basically because I have a single master page, and all of my other pages will be in different directories (i.e. Products, or KB or whatever) the pathing changes, so I cant' use relative pathing in the master page. I have to use absolute pathing. The problem is that in development mode I cna't make the development server start up with my project in the root of the development web server, so I can't use absolute pathing because it will be all wrong when I move it to a real IIS server.

This is a major problem with Master Pages because the pathing changes constantly. 

Does anyone have a work around?

I either need to work around the pathing to make it absolute to the root of the project, not the web server, or I need to be able to get the development web server that Vs.net 2005 starts to load my project in the root of it.  Either would be greatly appreciated :)

Thanks!

<img src="xxx" is a just a HTML element, the url will not be rebased correctly for the server-side resources. To fix this add runat=server to make it a server-side control so the resources can be mapped correctly. For example:

HTH,

Ting-hao

Thanks! works like a charm! Only problem is that it changes my ID values and screws with the CSS, but I'll live :)