~/ equivalent in javascript

Question

Any smart way of doing a \"root\" based path referencing in JavaScript, just the way we have ~/ in ASP.NET?

Answer 1

You could also use the asp.net feature VirtualPathUtility:

Notice: I don't encode the path to a JSON-string (escape quotes, control characters etc). I don't think this is a big deal (quotes for example aren't allowed unescaped in an URL), but one never knows...