Hi. I have questions about stylesheets. I notice that some websites have stylesheets that begin with "http://"?

Using http:// is called an absolute root. That means that no matter where the page, your machine, my machine, their machine, it will use THAT style sheet.

Using a relative root, such as css/main.css, will use the css that is on your machine in the relative folder, css.

I hope that sorta makes sense. Neither is 'better', it just depends on what you are doing.

Hi Christopher,

Just to add to what Logan said.

When you upload your website to your hosting company to take your website online then your stylesheet along with all your pages and images etc are then on their server. Having a relative path to your css when your building your website on your computer still means the path will be relative once you upload it to your hosting providers server as all your files are still together in the same place.

I can't think of a good reason why anyone would want to use a absolute path for their css, for one thing the website loading times would be a lot slower. I do however see a reason for people to use absolute paths for things like images as sometimes for whatever reason you can't get a copy for yourself.

Gotcha. Thanks guys.