title: How to incoporate jQuery UI into ASP.NET MVC 5 project that is on an offline system?
body: <p>I am having some issues trying to incorporate jQuery UI into my project. I cannot use Nuget or anything else that goes to the internet, so I have downloaded the development package from the jQuery UI website, and have been trying to include the files from the download into the MVC 5 project in visual studio 2015 as follows.</p>
  
  <p>1.) Created an MVC5 application in Visual Studio 2015.</p>
  
  <p>2.) Built a full download on the jQuery UI website (<a href="http://jqueryui.com/download/" rel="nofollow">http://jqueryui.com/download/</a>) on a different computer with online access.</p>
  
  <p>3.) Unzipped the downloaded folder and in the same location as the sample provided html (index.html) that is within this folder, I created my own html page to use some widgets to practice.</p>
  
  <p>4.) Back in the offline computer, in the Content folder in the VS 2015 project, I created a folder called "css" and moved all the files from the download related to styling (i.e. the "images" folder) and all the files with css extension (including self-created ones) to here.</p>
  
  <p>5.) In the Scripts folder of the VS2015 project, I created a folder called "jqueryui" and to here I moved the js files from the download, as well as the js file I created for my sample widget page.</p>
  
  <p>6.) Still within the Scripts folder of the VS2015 project, I moved in the "jquery.js" file that was in the "external" folder in the unzipped download folder.</p>
  
  <p>7.) Moved my sample html code into a new view cshtml I created in VS2015 called "Jqueryui.cshtml".</p>
  
  <p>8.) In this view, I modified my style and script links as follows to update the paths:</p>
  
  <p>In the html  tag:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;link href="~/Content/css/jquery-ui.css" rel="stylesheet"&gt;
  &lt;link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="~/Content/css/mycustom.css"&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Within the html  tag:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;script src="~/Scripts/jquery.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
  &lt;script src="~/Scripts/jqueryui/jquery-ui.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
  &lt;script src="~/Scripts/jqueryui/mycustom.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>9.) Added code in the appropriate controller to access this view.</p>
  
  <p>10.) Run the project and try to access the page in IE8, I get an error as follows in the debugger:</p>
  
  <p>"Object doesn't support this property or method" 
  On the following line of code (this is first of several lines of code that show this error):</p>
  
  <p>( "#tabsuseradmin" ).tabs();</p>
  
  <p>and then past the breakpoint, I get the page back with no styling or jQuery UI widgets whatsoever. The result is similar in the latest Firefox I downloaded from cnet.com today.</p>
  
  <p>I would greatly appreciate any assistance in getting jQuery UI running in a VS2015 MVC 5 project that is not connected to the internet. I believe I have covered all my steps in my attempt, and I am stuck on what to do now. The sample I created on my computer that is online works fine 
  (I know it's irreleavant that it is online in the context of the sample page I created, but this makes me believe I am messing up the path information when I moved the files to the different directory structure of the VS 2015 project (step 8)).</p>
  
  <p>Thank you.</p>