Hello,

I'm writing an ASP.Net 2.0 web site that utilises Themes. For this web site I've written a URL rewriter HttpModule, this is causing hell with my themes because the ASP.Net engine applies my stylesheets using relative paths.

So the page that executes a particular function is stored in a sub folder of my site like http://mydomain/workerpages/worker1.aspx

Visitors to my site navigate to all kinds of urls that don't actually exist thanks to my url re-writer like http://mydomain/sub1/sub2/sub3/view.aspx which then gets mapped to my worker1.aspx file.

Now because worker1.aspx is the page that is executed the ASP.Net engine applies my style sheet reference relative to that page like: src="../App_Themes/Theme1/stylesheet.css"

But my browser interprets that to mean  http://mydomain/sub1/sub2/App_Themes/Theme1/stylesheet.css which is obviously wrong.

 Is is possible to force the Themes engine to apply the stylesheet reference with an absolute link instead?

well this thing is normal, even though u have sub domains, ur themes get to load correctly (they must) unless u have something on ur page changing that.

does ur httomodule interfering with .css extentions, or rewriting there path, or did u manipulate ur web properties of IIS to handle CSS files?

Coz in the normal life, nothing must change and even though ur under 10 subdomains, u mustn't have a problem

Awaiting ur feedback

I realize why it is happening, it's happening because it is rendering ht HTML for the actual page that is processing the request - yes I understand this.

But because the ASP.Net Theme engine renders relative links to my style sheet it is immediately broken as soon as a page within the a different level sub-directory (not sub-domain) is called.

Again, I understand why this is happening - I'm just asking if there is a way to over-ride the way Themes apply there style sheets?

why not remove the sylesheet from ur theme, and include them using ur code behind

of course add this to ur head section of ur page

 <style runat="server" id="cStyle2" type="text/css" />

In ur page_Load

cStyle1.Attributes.Add("href", ResolveUrl("path to style"));

Hope this will be a fine solution for u