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CssClass value not found for non-MVC ASP.NET form

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Your problem is with this line:

<link media="all" href="~MyStyles.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" />

You cannot use the ~ syntax in non runat="server" controls. You can't use it in link or script tags anyway. So your href should look like:

<link media="all" href="MyStyles.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" />

For security, in case you move the file aspx file later you would be advised to include the full path from the root of the website starting with a / e.g. /MyFolder/MyStyles.css

Philip Smith 2010-07-27 18:56:08

When I remove the tilde, I get the warning "File 'mystyles.css' was not found."

Buggieboy 2010-07-27 19:16:18

Then you need to include the path. Without path info ASP.NET looks for the file in the root of the website not the folder the aspx file is in. Add a path to the href or move the stylesheet to the root of the website.

Philip Smith 2010-07-27 19:32:28

If I'm building a new app in VS 2008, under Win 7, the project is created in C:\Users\myname\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\myproject. I haven't deployed yet, so I really don't know what you mean by "the root of the website", and I don't know what the href path would be relative to.

Buggieboy 2010-07-27 20:36:28

The root of the website would be where the web.config lives. In your case most likely the myproject folder.

Philip Smith 2010-07-27 23:37:41

Okay, so I verified that the stylesheet is in the same folder as the web.config. Changed the reference to look like this:<link media="all" href="./MyStyles.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" />yet get the same "not defined" error.

Buggieboy 2010-07-28 21:24:05

You don't need the dot in the path. The dot means "here" so "./MyStyles.css" is the same as "MyStyles.css". What you need to say is "from the root" which is "/MyStyles.css.

Philip Smith 2010-07-28 21:51:05

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