Relative URLs in Sharepoint master page

Question

I have a master page with tabs. The tabs are defined by the following sitemap file:

<siteMap>
    <siteMapNode title="Home" url="~/" >
        <siteMapNode title="Schedule" url="~/Pages/Tab2.aspx"/>      
        <siteMapNode title="Deliverables" url="~/Pages/Tab3.aspx"/>
        <siteMapNode title="My Items" url="~/Pages/Tab4.aspx"/>
        <siteMapNode title="Management" url="~/Pages/Tab5.aspx"/>
        <siteMapNode title="Working Docs" url="~/Pages/Tab6.aspx"/>
    </siteMapNode>
</siteMap>

The problem is that on my subsites, clicking on a tab keeps taking me back to the root. For example, I want the schedule link to go to http://Server/Subsite/Pages/Tab2.aspx. Instead, what I am getting is http://Server/Pages/Tab2.aspx. I read that having a tilde at the beginning of the link would solve this problem but it doesn't.

Answer 1

I spent HOURS looking for the answer to this question, and it turns out there IS one, it's just annoying. You can use the ProjectProperty tag in WSS sites AND MOSS sites, and one of the possible parameters for ProjectProperty gives you the subsite's URL.

<SharePoint:ProjectProperty Property="Url" runat="server"/>

That outputs a string literal with the value of the subsite URL. So, for example, you can do this (note that you need to use single-quotes for the src='' or href='' attribute of the actual HTML tag):

<a href='<SharePoint:ProjectProperty Property="Url" runat="server"/>/pages/Tab2.aspx'>

Hope it helps! For a listing of other possible values for ProjectProperty, check out this guy's page (which is where i found my original answer!)