Best way to use a header include file?

[John Dalberg]

I created a header file to be included in every webpage. The header file
has images that have a path to an "images" folder off the root folder.
However if I use this header file for web pages that reside in subfolders,
I have to change the path of all the image links to '../images/' instead of
'images/'.

What's the best way to have a single header file which *any* web page,
regardless of its location, can use without modifying it to suit certain
webpages depedning on their location?

 

[Juan T. Llibre]

"~/images/whatever.ext" will work for any application folder.

"~" stand for the application root in ASP.NET,
so if you have a directory structure like this :

root
/images
/anotherdir
/anotherdir/someotherdir
/anotherdir/someotherdir/yetanotherdir

"~/images/whatever.ext" will reference root/images
from all those directories.



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[John Dalberg]

"~/images/whatever.ext" will work for any application folder.

"~" stand for the application root in ASP.NET,
so if you have a directory structure like this :

root
/images
/anotherdir
/anotherdir/someotherdir
/anotherdir/someotherdir/yetanotherdir

"~/images/whatever.ext" will reference root/images
from all those directories.

Thanks. Where is this mentioned in the help file or MSDN? I don't even know
what keyword to use for this.

John

 

[Juan T. Llibre]

re:

Thanks.

You're very much welcome.

re:

Where is this mentioned in the help file or MSDN?

Go to : http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms298210(en-us,MSDN.10).aspx

and search for : "ASP.NET Web Site Paths"

It's the first article which comes up.



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[Alan Silver]

If the images are all in /images, then why bother with the ~ sign?
That's only for server controls anyway, so you have to remember to use /
in client stuff.

It would be easier to use /images for everything, as that will always
resolve to the images folder off the domain's root. No?