Question

When I write javascript code in ASP.NET MVC views, I can use @Url.Content() to generate a reference path.

Recently, I’m play with coffeescript and use MINDSCAPE Web WorkBench to generate js files in Visual Studio.

However, when I split all my js file to multiple files, I can’t use Url helpers so that I must hard code url path like ‘/Dashboard/User/12’ into coffee files.

Is there any work around that I can use url helpers in splited js/coffee files?

Answer 1

you can use html5 data-* attributes on html elements and from your js file you can access them

Html

<li class='elem' data-url='example.com'>something</li>

Javascript

$('.elem').data('url') // return example.com

and that is the idea of unobtrusive Javascript ,put the needed information in the html document without putting Javascript code in it

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if your using html helpers and want to use data-* check this out