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Lets say I am currently at: http://example.com/folder/page.html
Is it possible to create a relative link on this page that points to http://example.com/folder/ without specifying folder anywhere? (And using only HTML.)
UPDATE: As it turned out ./ works only in non-strict doctype mode, while . works in both modes, so it is still a better answer in my opinion :) Thanks everybody.
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Just dot is working. The doctype makes a difference however as sometimes the ./ is fine as well.
<a href=".">Link to this folder</a> For anyone who has found this thread, addressing relative paths has always created arguments over what is correct or not.
Depending on where you use the path to be addressed, it will depend on how you address the path.
Generally :
. and ./ do the same thing, however you wouldn't use . with a file name. Otherwise you will have the browser requesting .filename.ext as a file from the server. The proper method would be ./filename.ext.
../ addresses the path up one level from the current folder. If you were in the path /cheese/crackers/yummy.html, and your link code asked for ../butter/spread.html in the document yummy.html, then you would be addressing the path /cheese/butter/spread.html, as far as the server was concerned.
/ will always address the root of the site.
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