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Asked: 2026-05-11T13:47:29+00:00

I’ve got an ASP.NET MVC application that uses jQuery. To load the js libraries,

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I’ve got an ASP.NET MVC application that uses jQuery. To load the js libraries, I reference them like this:

<script type='text/javascript' src='../../Scripts/jquery-1.3.2.min.js'></script>

This works fine locally, but when I publish it to the server, it can’t find the library. To get it to work, I have to change it to this:

<script type='text/javascript' src='../Scripts/jquery-1.3.2.min.js'></script>

Making this change allows it to work locally and on the server, but it gives me a warning that the file was not found. So I’ve got a couple of questions:

  1. How does the code work locally if I’m not referencing the correct library location?
  2. What can I put for a script path that will work everywhere and not throw a warning?

I know an answer to #2 is to store the libraries in some known absolute path, but I’m not ready to commit to that yet.

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  1. Try this:

    <script type='text/javascript' src='<%= Url.Content('~/Scripts/jquery-1.3.2.min.js') %>'></script>

    This will relativize the path to the root of your application regardless of whether it is at the top level or in a virtual directory. I actually developed a HtmlHelper extension that lets clean this up to:

    <%= Html.Javascript( Url.Content( '~/Scripts/jquery-1.3.2.min.js' )) %>

    Add the following to get intellisense. This needs the relative path to work, but gets excluded at runtime because the condition (always) fails.

    <% if (false) { %>      <script type='text/javascript' src='../../Scripts/jquery-1.3.2.vsdoc.js'></script> <% } %>
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