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I started learning html recently, and one thing that really confused me is why do some links have a forward-slash("/") before the path and some links don't?
ie.
<link href="/favicon.png" rel="icon"> <link href="/stylesheets/screen.css" media="screen, projection" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> vs.
<dt><a href="reset/index.html">Reset CSS</a></dt> Is one a relative path and one an absolute path? and how do href's work exactly? does it just stick on the path name after the base url?
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Definition and Usage. The href attribute specifies the URL of the page the link goes to. If the href attribute is not present, the <a> tag will not be a hyperlink. Tip: You can use href="#top" or href="#" to link to the top of the current page!
A trailing slash is a forward slash placed at the end of a URL. It's usually used to indicate a directory (as opposed to a file), but in SEO it can affect your rankings. Take a look at the URLs below and guess which one is 'correct'. Note that one of them has a trailing slash at the end.
In most cases, the tag is repeated at the end of the content, with the tag name preceded by a forward slash (e.g. </p>), to indicate that the action is no longer needed.
The "two forward slashes" are a common shorthand for "request the referenced resource using whatever protocol is being used to load the current page".
Is one a relative path and one an absolute path?
Yes.
If your browser is currently pointing at http://foo/bar/baz.html then:
<a href="reset/index.html"> would link to http://foo/bar/reset/index.html.<a href="/reset/index.html"> would link to http://foo/reset/index.html.If there is a base element in the head of your HTML document then the relative path will be relative to the base. For example the link here will take you to http://example.com/foobar/reset/index.html regardless of where the page is located.
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Base element example</TITLE> <BASE href="http://example.com/foobar/"> </HEAD> <BODY> <P><a href="reset/index.html">Reset CSS</a> </BODY> </HTML> If you love us? You can donate to us via Paypal or buy me a coffee so we can maintain and grow! Thank you!
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