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Asked: 2026-05-12T22:30:29+00:00

I am working in an ASP.NET MasterPage and am having trouble with <link href="…"

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I am working in an ASP.NET MasterPage and am having trouble with <link href="..." />.

I am trying to substitute in a stylesheet with a specific name:

<link href="/Content/Styles/<%=Model.Style%>.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

Unfortunately, this creates the HTML output:

<link href="/Content/Styles/&lt;%=Model.Style%>.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

Which is clearly not what was intended.

If I put the same code in a View placeholder, it works perfectly. This is not a good solution though as I have many pages where I just want it to do the same thing.

It looks like it’s trying to automatically correct the URL – is there a way to switch this off?

Edit 1:

I have fixed this temporarily using:

<link href=<%=String.Format("\"/Content/Styles/{0}.css\"", Model.Style)%> rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
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  1. Editorial Team

    All the links in your question and in the solution posted thus far will fail if your site is deployed in a virtual folder. Instead, do:

    <link href="<%= Url.Content("~/Content/Styles/" + Model.Style + ".css") %>" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

    This (1) fixes the problem in your question, and (2) allows your site to work in a virtual folder.

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