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HTML HTML Basics Going Further with HTML Root-relative Paths

Hyeji Kim
Hyeji Kim
1,552 Points
Posted by Hyeji Kim
Hyeji Kim
1,552 Points

a href="../../index.html" doesn't work

at article.html page, i used code <a href ="../../index.html"> to go back to "home" page, but Not found error occurred.. I don't know why it doesn't work..

I guess it related to this: if i click the preview button, it goes not to index.html, but page like that.. Index of / [ICO] Name Last modified Size Description [TXT] Index.html 2021-12-05 11:40 3.7K
[DIR] articles/ 2021-12-04 05:22 -
[DIR] img/ 2021-12-04 05:49 -
Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu) Server at port-80-a8trrzarjo.treehouse-app.com Port 80

i don't know why it doesn't go index.html page directly

  <li><a href="../../index.html">Home</a></li>
  <li><a href="../../index.html#about">About</a></li>
  <li><a href="../../index.html#articles">Articles</a></li>
  <li><a href="../../index.html#contact">Contact</a></li>

4 Answers

Jason Larson
Jason Larson
8,355 Points

In the video, the instructor's "article.html" file is in the folder "articles/2017/". If you did not create that subfolder and move the file there, the pathing will be incorrect. If you only have the Articles folder, and that is where your article.html file is, then the path for the href would just be "../index.html"

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,787 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,787 Points

Is article.html located in a directory two levels below where index.html is? Otherwise, this would not be a correct href to get to it.

If that's not the issue, please share the whole project. Make a snapshot of your workspace and post the link to it here.

Charlie Palmer
Charlie Palmer
15,445 Points
Charlie Palmer
Charlie Palmer
15,445 Points

If you share an image of the folders/directory so we can see the relation between the files. I tend reference them starting with './'

Mahomede TCHAPOU
Mahomede TCHAPOU
1,717 Points
Mahomede TCHAPOU
Mahomede TCHAPOU
1,717 Points

can you share the complete html code sheet or doc to. see where is the problem!