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Posted by ammarkhan
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ammarkhan
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 21,661 Points

Difference between ./ and .../ and what are they called?

I m trying to understand what does ./ and .../ difference are.? I am using vue and it my IDE (Vscode) isn't giving me intellisense as my work machine which make it hard for me to relate on what each does?

3 Answers

Liam Clarke
Liam Clarke
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Hi

These are used for relative paths.

Traversing through folders.

The first one:

./

This is the folder that the working file is in for example

|-- index.html
|   |-- css
|   |   |-- styles.css

So in the index.html file, ./ is the root directory

And in the styles.css file, ./ is the css folder

The second one:

../

This is moving out of the directory of the working file

|-- index.html
|   |-- css
|   |   |-- styles.css

So in the styles.css file, ../ is the root folder as we have moved back one directory

ammarkhan
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ammarkhan
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ammarkhan
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 21,661 Points

Liam Clarke I am totally lost.