relative link for directory above

html relative-url
Skizit picture Skizit · Jan 10, 2011 · Viewed 30.3k times · Source

I've got a file structure like so

Root
-index.html
-adirectory
 ->fileinthedirectory.html

I'd like to create a relative link from fileinthedirectory.html to index.html since /index.html links to /adirectory/index.html which doesn't exist.

Answer

Vincent Ramdhanie picture Vincent Ramdhanie · Jan 10, 2011

To go up one directory you can use:

 ../index.html

or you can start the URL with a slash to start from the root

 /index.html

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