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James Coffin
238 Pointsimg tag question
Hello, I put the "smells like bakin'" folder on my computer. However when I put in the image tag <img src="../desktop/img/logo.gif" alt="Smells Like Bakin"> like this, the text editor asks for 2 dots in front of desktop in order for the tag to work. My question is what do those dots mean? Is that normal syntax? I tried this with multiple text editors and it's the same with all of them.
2 Answers
Ilja Daderko
8,953 PointsThe "../" means that you are jumping out of a folder to grab something for example if your web project is in a folder named "Project" and inside this folder you have "img" "css" "files" folders, We can assume that your html page is inside files folder. In order to get an image you will need to jump out of a "files" folder to get access to "img" folder (as it is outside), so in your html a path to an image should look like "../img/somefile.png" It sounds to me like you might be doing something wrong, as you should not encounter this problem, make sure to watch through videos again.
James Coffin
238 PointsThank you very much. That helped a lot!!
Ilja Daderko
8,953 PointsYou're welcome ;)
James Barnett
39,199 PointsJames Barnett
39,199 PointsIlja Daderko -