What he probably meant was ./somedirectory which would be reletive to the current directory. But it is easier to use directory/file.html which is reletive to the directory your index.html file is in. e.g. HREF="trees/fig.html". Which would be base_directory/trees/fig.html wherein 'base_directory is the one your index.html is in.
Ciao, Graywolf http://pages.prodigy.net/graywolfphoto ---------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 10:19 PM Subject: Re: Web Site Domains > On 15 Mar 2002 at 20:28, William Robb wrote: > > > > > > Also, a URL specified from the root of the server would be > > absolute. > > > > Yes and no. It is an absolute in that it will look to the root > > directory of that website, but it is portable from one server to > > another with no recoding. > > I'm not sure I'm following you here...in any case, your basic point is correct in that you should avoid absolute urls when possible. This is pretty good at explaining it with > some examples: > > http://www.webreference.com/html/tutorial2/3.html > > tv > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
