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Stavros Sofroniadis
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Stavros Sofroniadis
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Posted by Stavros Sofroniadis
Stavros Sofroniadis
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About Relative & Absolute links

Dear Friends,

if we have a local website/remote server site and inside we have 2 folders:

1)stuff

 index.html

 history.html

2)things

 index.html

The above folders contains these files.

If we want to link index.html with history.html we will use relative link.

But if we like to link stuff/index.html with things/index.html what kind of link it is better to use absolute or relative?

Thank You,

1 Answer

Adam Pengh
Adam Pengh
29,881 Points
Adam Pengh
Adam Pengh
29,881 Points

It's generally better to use relative links for internal links and absolute links for external links. So on your site, linking to the various files would look like:

<a href="/stuff/index.html">Stuff</a>
<a href="/stuff/history.html">History</a>

<a href="/things/index.html">Things</a>

For example, the first link says from the web server root directory, go to the directory "stuff" and get the file "index.html"

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Common_questions/What_is_a_URL