On a skeleton ASP.MVC that Visual Studio creates, I add a script tag to my head section in Site.Master:
<script src="~/Scripts/jquery-1.3.2.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
This causes the page to not render. In my case, I had a custom controllerfactory and the base method GetControllerInstance threw an exception:
The controller for path '/~/Scripts/jquery-1.3.2.js' could not be found or it does not implement IController.
Using "../../Scripts/jquery-1.3.2.js" for the src does not work either.
The only way it works is:
<script src="<%= Url.Content("~/Scripts/jquery-1.3.2.js") %>"
type="text/javascript"></script>
Then of course, the intellisense does not work for jquery. So I have to resort to adding the hack:
<% if (false) { %>
<script src="~/Scripts/jquery-1.3.2.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<% } %>
which the hotfix was supposed to fix according to ScottGu
A line above is a link to a stylesheet:
<link href="~/Content/Site.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
For some reason, that works fine. Whether I use the virtual or relative path, I can see that the resulting url on the page is "Content/Site.css". The same can't be said for the jquery url. jquery link is returned as is - the jquery url is returned on the page containing the "~" or the "../..".
Can someone tell me what is going on? Thanks
UPDATE:
Thanks to the commenters, I remembered that ~ is an asp.net thing. My only question is then why doesn't the same issue exist for the stylesheet? The link tag above, for example, I can put ~ or relative paths and it always comes out right. Where is the magic?
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