ASP.NET 1.1 server control for <link> - enabling relative URL paths using tilde "~"

re: ASP.NET 1.1 server control for - enabling relative URL paths using tilde "~"

blag — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:31:45 GMT

Easier way? Use ResolveURL

re: ASP.NET 1.1 server control for - enabling relative URL paths using tilde "~"

Cristiano — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:21:27 GMT

Thanks, it helped me a lot :)

re: ASP.NET 1.1 server control for - enabling relative URL paths using tilde "~"

Javier Callico — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:40:40 GMT

Good idea. I used it as start point for a culture-aware link custom control. I'll post the code on my website http://www.callicode.com/

re: ASP.NET 1.1 server control for - enabling relative URL paths using tilde "~"

Carlo Bertini — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 10:20:47 GMT

Good tips, many thx

re: ASP.NET 1.1 server control for - enabling relative URL paths using tilde "~"

Wim Hollebrandse — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 16:12:00 GMT

JJ - yep aware of that, but for our needs we had to also dynamically set the stylesheet, hence the need for the control to be a server control. And as I'm sure you're aware, you can't use the classic ASP <% %> syntax in a server control.

re: ASP.NET 1.1 server control for - enabling relative URL paths using tilde "~"

JJ — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 16:04:00 GMT

An alternative in .NET 1.1 is to use the old ASP <% %> syntax:
<link href='<% =ResolveUrl("~/my.css") %>' ...

re: ASP.NET 1.1 server control for - enabling relative URL paths using tilde "~"

Wim Hollebrandse — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 14:43:00 GMT

Furthermore, the HtmlLink class in ASP.NET 2.0 already supports the "~" syntax for its href attribute, so in ASP.NET 2.0, all you need to do is add runat="server" to the link element and you can use the tilde in the href without a problem.

re: ASP.NET server control for - enabling relative URL paths using tilde "~"

Wim Hollebrandse — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 13:31:00 GMT

Sean,

I should've mentioned that this is a .NET 1.1 solution. The HtmlLink class is the correct class to use when using .NET 2.0, but does not exist in .NET 1.1 or 1.0.

Cheers,
Wim

Cleaner solution?

Sean — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 13:15:00 GMT

Hi,
rather than doing this, i'd look into HtmlLink control implementation. It does the same thing, almost. The only think you'd need to do is to modify the HREF attribute by substituting the base value with the new updated one. Less coding, and definately more OOP. :)