Marusya's School Notes

Links: Relative

An absolute URL is a full web address:

<a href="http://www.w3schools.com/html/">Absolute URL</a>

A relative URL is a local link, which has been placed on the same website. Relative URLs do not require the "http://www." part of the address.

<a href="filename.html/">Relative URL</a>

HTML file:	Displayed by browser:
<h3>This is an example of a relative url.</h3> <p>My <a href="boo.html" target="_blank"> ghost webpage</a> has been placed in the same directory as <b><i>this</i></b> webpage.</p>	This is an example of a relative url. My ghost webpage has been placed in the same directory as *this* webpage.

HTML file:

Displayed by browser:

<h3>This is an example of a relative url.</h3>

<p>My <a href="boo.html" target="_blank">
ghost webpage</a>
has been placed in the same directory as
<b><i>this</i></b> webpage.</p>

This is an example of a relative url.

My ghost webpage has been placed in the same directory as this webpage.

A webpage is a single HTML document. A website is a set of webpages uploaded to the same web hosting service.