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Problems with folder pathnames


tjillian87

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I am struggling with relative folder pathnames. I have created a parent folder, and within this parent are the three child folders, if one is to look at the file hierarchy as a tree in order to visualize the subfolders.

 

For example, "/" is the parent of file folder "project2." Project2 is therefore the parent of files "home.html," "aboutme.html," and folder "adrbook," which is the parent of "listform.html"

 

I want to reference folders using relative pathnames. For example, if I am currently working in file folder "home.html," and I want the browser to search folder "about me.html," what should I type as the path? "Home.html" and "aboutme.html" are siblings and children of Project2. Since I am using Windows 7, I thought:

<a href="\aboutme.html">content </a>

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A single slash refers to the root of the entire system, which on Windows would usually be C:\.

 

What you need to do for each file is to go up one folder using ../ and then choose the folder the other file is in. If two files are in the same folder, just using the name of the other file will link to it.

 

To link to listform.html from home.html:

<a href="../adrbook/listform.html>Link</a>

To link to aboutme.html from home.html:

<a href="aboutme.html>Link</a>
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