Sharepoint CSS : dynamically add SharePoint:CssLink using javascript/jquery

Question

How to add CSS Link dynamically to elements?

$('head').append('<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="my css path">'); 

The below code doesnt work because we need to specify the url/path of the css file.

$('head').append('<SharePoint:CssLink runat=”server” Version=”4″ />'); 

Answer 1

The CssLink-Control is a server-side control. Jquery is only client-side, you can´t do that using jquery.

Answer 2

The other option can be to add a custom action (A scriptlink) Using SharePoint JSOM

Answer 3

Here's the "oldschool" way of doing it, which hopefully works accross all browsers. In theory you would use setAttribute unfortunately IE6 doesn't support it consistently

var cssId = 'myCss'; // you could encode the css path itself to generate id.. if (!document.getElementById(cssId)) { var head = document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0]; var link = document.createElement('link'); link.id = cssId; link.rel = 'stylesheet'; link.type = 'text/css'; link.href = 'http://website.com/css/stylesheet.css'; link.media = 'all'; head.appendChild(link); } 

This example checks if the CSS was already added so it adds it only once.

Put that code into a javascript file, have the end-user simply include the javascript, and make sure the CSS path is absolute so it is loaded from your servers.