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HTML HTML Basics Images, Text and Links Understanding File Paths

Posted by Ilona Mikhalskaya
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Ilona Mikhalskaya
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 487 Points

using ../../

Can't clearly understand why do we need to type twice ../../ if index.html is not situated in any folder (like situating somewhere deep) Looking forward to answers! THANKS:)

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,268 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,268 Points

As the instructor says about 4 minutes into the video, "... each ../ instructs the browser to go up one level out of the current folder and up to its container folder."

In this example, the html file is nested two levels deep (in the folder named "2017"), so the first ../ references the parent folder (named "articles"), and the other one references the previous parent folder (the root folder) which is where index.html is located.