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CSS

Posted by Arjun Gurudatta Hegde
Arjun Gurudatta Hegde
233 Points

CSS Style sheet not loading in asp.net mvc using Razor

I have used these lines inside head tag

<link href="~/Content/site.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> <link href="~/Content/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

Bootstrap seems to work, but site.css is not loading..I even tried

<link href='@Url.Content("~/Content/site.css")' rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

I couldn't find any solution. Where am I going wrong?

2 Answers

Jeff Muday
MOD
Jeff Muday
Treehouse Moderator 28,720 Points
Jeff Muday
Jeff Muday
Treehouse Moderator 28,720 Points

The '~' character is probably the issue. During deployment, you would want to use either a relative path '.' or a complete pathname to ensure the web server can resolve the path.

The '~' character indicates the default home path of the current user in UNIX/Linux/Mac. Thus, it does not translate well to deployment of a website since the '~' may only be understood in the current user's shell login context, but not necessarily a deployment context.

This was written in 1999, but is still true today.

http://jkorpela.fi/tilde.html

Ashley Morley
PLUS
Ashley Morley
Courses Plus Student 6,520 Points
Ashley Morley
Ashley Morley
Courses Plus Student 6,520 Points

Clearing Your cache works and should update it appropriately hopefully this helps someone out there