webControls Element (ASP.NET Settings Schema)

Specifies the shared location of the client script files.

<webControls clientScriptsLocation="String" />

Attributes and Elements

The following sections describe attributes, child elements, and parent elements.

Attribute	Description
clientScriptsLocation	Required String attribute. Sets the client scripts location. Default value is "/aspnet_client/{0}/{1}/".

clientScriptsLocation

Required String attribute.

Sets the client scripts location.

Default value is "/aspnet_client/{0}/{1}/".

None.

Element	Description
configuration	The required root element in every configuration file used by the common language runtime and .NET Framework applications.
system.web	Specifies the root element for the ASP.NET configuration settings in a configuration file. Contains configuration elements that configure ASP.NET Web applications and control how the applications behave.

The following default webControls element is configured in the machine configuration file in the .NET Framework versions 1.0 and 1.1.

<webControls clientScriptsLocation="/aspnet_client/{0}/{1}/"/>

The following default webControls element is configured in the root Web.config file in the .NET Framework version 2.0.

<webControls clientScriptsLocation="/aspnet_client/{0}/{1}/" />

The following example sets the shared location of the client script files for an ASP.NET application.

<webControls clientScriptsLocation="/aspnet_client/{0}/{1}/" />

Note
The "{0}" in the above example will be replaced with the namespace name (for example, system_web), and the "{1}" will be replaced with the Framework version number.

Configuration Section Handler	System.Web.Configuration.WebControlsSection
Configuration Member	System.Web.Configuration.SystemWebSectionGroup.WebControls
Configurable Locations	Machine.config Root level Web.config Application level Web.config Virtual or physical directory level Web.config
Requirements	IIS 5.0, IIS 5.1, or IIS 6.0 .NET Framework 1.0, 1.1, or 2.0 Visual Studio 2003, or Visual Studio 2005