ASP.NET MVC Routing

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I'm having this strange routing problem - I have 2 kinds of routes to the same view. Such as Simulator/RunStrategy/7 and Simulator/RunStrategy/7/1000.

Where as the controller and view is defined as public ActionResult RunStrategy(int id, decimal sum).

When I use the short one I see the view as needed, when i use the long one - I get all the "link href...." messed up. Such as:

<link href="../../../css/global.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

Where it should be:

<link href="../../css/global.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

Which really is displayed correctly when I use the short routing link.

The routing table is as follows:



        routes.MapRoute(
            "Run Simulation",
            "Simulator/RunStrategy/{id}/{startingsum}",
            new { controller = "Simulator", action = "RunStrategy", id = "0", startingsum = "100000" },
            new { id = @"\d+", startingsum = @"^([0-9]*|\d*\.\d{1}?\d*)$" }
        );

Where it works fine.

Help would be much appreciated. Thanks.

How are linking your CSS files? Are you using Url.Content()? — Kristof Claes
– Kristof Claes, Commented Aug 12, 2010 at 13:48
Should I? I'm using direct links as given above (for the short route version) and it is being added "../" at the long route for some reason. — Roman
– Roman, Commented Aug 12, 2010 at 13:50
have you thought about simply using root path, e.g. /themes/css/global.css? — William Niu
– William Niu, Commented Aug 12, 2010 at 13:54
for some strange reason it just doens't work. It needs those "../../" to work - where it really should accept the root path. ideas why so? — Roman
– Roman, Commented Aug 12, 2010 at 13:56

Kristof Claes · Accepted Answer · 2010-08-12 13:54:56Z

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You should try using Url.Content() and see if that makes a difference.

Example:

<link href="<%=Url.Content("~/Content/Site.css")%>" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

answered Aug 12, 2010 at 13:54

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Roman Over a year ago

I've tried that one - it gives me a link to "/css/global.css" where it should be "../../css/global.css"

Roman Over a year ago

BTW - the problem is only with CSS files. for JS it works fine.

Kristof Claes Over a year ago

What is the full path of your global.css file?

Roman Over a year ago

it's at the root of the site with /css/global.css (i.e <root>/css/global.css) - where as the directories are standard MVC dir structure.

Kristof Claes Over a year ago

If /css/global.css is the full path of your file, and the Url.Content() outputs <link href="/css/global.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" />, then it should work from every page because it's using an absolute url instead of a relative one. Are you sure there isn't some other problem?

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