Javascript - works in some cases, not in others

[sacheson]

Alright - here's my situation. I'm using ASP.NET 2.0 and some javascript. The jscript works just fine if I put the files in the root directory of the project, and works fine if I upload the .js file to my web server and fully qualify the name in the src attribute of the script tag (meaning:

http://mywebsite.com/js/javascriptfilename.js).

BUT (here's the bit but(t) of the night) - IF I put the .js file in a "js" folder inside my project on the local machine, ASP does not load the file (or tells me it was loaded with errors in IE).

Thinking it was a permissions issue, I granted every stinking permission to the ASP.NET and IUSR users on my machine. I even wrote some code that opens the files and writes the contents out in my browser - so the application can access it.

Does /anyone/ know what's going on here? What am I not doing? I googled and googled, I searched around this and other forums for about 45 mins before posting this. And I can't find a derned thing. At this point, I'm just dizzy.

FWIW - this is also happening with .css files, so it is repeatable.

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[vbkris]

hi,

the SRC path of the JS file will tell the browser where to look for the file.

therefore if the path is set to "

http://mywebsite.com/js/javascriptfilename.js"

it will not work locally.

rather than doing that try this method:

src="/js/javascriptfilename.js"

/ - Represents the root folder...

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[sacheson]

Uhm - I'm doing that. That's my point. Maybe I should explain better ...

1) put myCustomJavascript.js in the root of my project.
example: <script ... src="myCustomJavascript.js">
**** THIS WORKS

2) put myCustomJavascript.js in /any/ folder on my website
example: <script ... src="

http://www.mysite.com/js/myCustomJavascript.js">

**** THIS WORKS

3) place the file in any subdirectory under my project root locally (with all the enumerations I've tried):
example: <script ... src="js/myCustomJavascript.js">
example: <script ... src="../js/myCustomJavascript.js">
example: <script ... src="/js/myCustomJavascript.js">
**** THIS DOES NOT WORK

Also - it works with static html files. It just doesn't seem to work when I execute the code with ASP.NET.

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[PGoRule]

For server side scripts, try this:

<script runat="server" src="~/js/myCustomJavascript.js" type="text/javascript">

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[vbkris]

>>Also - it works with static html files. It just doesn't seem to work when I execute the code with ASP.NET.

open the ASPX file in the browser. do a view source of the outputted HTML.

try to fint the <script> tag. is it the same as what you had entered???

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