what is the Difference between Absolute and Relative URL?

[lunar_eclipse_82]

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Good day, First of all I want to thank you for your time for reading this, I just want to have a clarification, I know the basic of what is absolute URL and relative but my problem is that it state here that absolute URL itself has no bearing on the location of the actual file referenced--wheter it is in a Web page on your server or on mine...an absolute URL will look exactly the same: pwede ninyo og bisaya lang pag ingon para ma sabtan gyud

[eax]

akong sabot sa absolute url is kanang url naay mga "../". For example kanang <img src="../../mypic.jpeg">

ang relative url kay kanang naka-point siya directly. For example <img src="http://localhost/mypic.jpeg">

[vern]

@eax ... you have the two backwards.

Relative means relative to the domain name you are currently are. Say if I write the HTML for http://www.bla.com, if I wanted to link to a an image in bla.com, I'd only have to link to it by ...

<a href="bla/this_is_an_image.jpg">

and the browser would know that that image is actually at http://www.bla.com/bla/this_is_an_image.jpg. Again, relative by definition is how it relates to the current domain ... hence relative.

relative - "something having, or standing in, some relation to something else."

Absolute means the complete URL including the host.server.tld (www.server.com). Going back to my example of writing HTML for http://www.bla.com ... if I wanted to link to an image on a different domain such as http://www.google.com ... I would have to use an absolute URL such as

<a href="http://www.google.com/image/this_is_an_image.jpg">

Now you know, and knowing is half the battle.

[eax]

@eax ... you have the two backwards.

Relative means relative to the domain name you are currently are. Say if I write the HTML for http://www.bla.com, if I wanted to link to a an image in bla.com, I'd only have to link to it by ...

<a href="bla/this_is_an_image.jpg">

and the browser would know that that image is actually at http://www.bla.com/bla/this_is_an_image.jpg. Again, relative by definition is how it relates to the current domain ... hence relative.

relative - "something having, or standing in, some relation to something else."

Absolute means the complete URL including the host.server.tld (www.server.com). Going back to my example of writing HTML for http://www.bla.com ... if I wanted to link to an image on a different domain such as http://www.google.com ... I would have to use an absolute URL such as

<a href="http://www.google.com/image/this_is_an_image.jpg">

Now you know, and knowing is half the battle.

Sorry, my mistake.

[pridi]

kung naa ka sa imong pc bah, ang isa ana kay ma set ug "c:\documents and settings\blah blah blah" and the other one is "images\blah blah" lang, so ang first kay specific jud cya ug location, wherever you go, dapat naa ana nga address ang links whereas ang 2nd kay mo depende asa ang location sa imong source .html gipadagan