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Asked: 2026-05-21T17:09:40+00:00

I’am working on small ASP.NET MVC project and I got an weird behaviour. At

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I’am working on small ASP.NET MVC project and I got an weird behaviour. At the point the project differs from ASP.NET MVC default template only by css stylesheets. The body tag is completely empty. Here you can see the master page:

<%@ Master Language="C#" Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewMasterPage" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
    <title>
        <asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="TitleContent" runat="server" />
    </title>

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

    <script type="text/javascript" src="/Scripts/jquery-1.4.1.js" />
</head>

<body>
    <div class="page">

        <div id="header">
            <div id="title">
                <h1>Obscura.com</h1>
            </div>            

            <div id="logindisplay">
                <% Html.RenderPartial("LogOnUserControl"); %>
            </div>

            <div id="menucontainer">

                <ul id="menu">
                    <li class="ui-corners-all" ><%: Html.ActionLink("Home", "Index", "Home")%></li>
                    <li class="ui-corners-all" ><%: Html.ActionLink("About", "About", "Home")%></li>
                </ul>

            </div>
        </div>

        <div id="main">
            <asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="MainContent" runat="server" />

            <div id="footer">
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</body>
</html>

and the home controller index view:

<%@ Page Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/Views/Shared/Site.Master" Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewPage" %>

<asp:Content ID="Content1" ContentPlaceHolderID="TitleContent" runat="server">
    Home Page
</asp:Content>

<asp:Content ID="Content2" ContentPlaceHolderID="MainContent" runat="server">
    <h2><%: ViewData["Message"] %></h2>
    <p>
        To learn more about ASP.NET MVC visit <a href="http://asp.net/mvc" title="ASP.NET MVC Website">http://asp.net/mvc</a>.
    </p>
    <img src="../../Content/Images/Design/blackpony1440.jpg" alt="" class="protectedContent" />
</asp:Content>

I’ve looked through the generated html with firebug – the head is rendered correctly, but the body tag is completely empty but view initial source shows the correct html. I tried to throw an exception in index view and i got the error page. I have no useful warnings while building project. but when i commented this line

<script type="text/javascript" src="/Scripts/jquery-1.4.1.js" />

everything was rendered well.

I thought of some script failure, but if I import just an empty file i get the empty screen. Why does it work this way ?

Thanks.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You shouldn’t use self-closing tags (<tag/>) for <script> tags. Doing that will make crazy things happen, as you have observed. You need to use this instead:

    <script type="text/javascript" src="/Scripts/jquery-1.4.1.js"></script>
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