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nobody
nobody

Reputation: 21

How to make working path in HTML?

So, currently I'm making a website. It's an assignment. And when I tried to open it on different computer, it didn't work.

So, for example: "a href="file:///E:/assignment/main page/index.html#"

It did work on my computer, but it won't work on another. I need it to work at any computer.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 210

Answers (3)

Chris
Chris

Reputation: 3338

There are two halves to your question:

How do I make my website accessible anywhere?

You need a web server, or you need to use a hosting company. GoDaddy, 1and1, HostGator, and other hosting companies have computers (web servers) that are configured to show their webpages to anyone in the world. They cost around $10 per month, and you end up with the ability to create links such as http://example.com/myproject/index.html

It's possible that your professor will let you put your web pages on one of his drives that are accessible anywhere on campus. Otherwise, a flash drive can do in a pinch. Put the files onto a flash drive and then bring the flash drive to class.

Is there a better way to write links?

Most websites use relative URLs in their links. For example, Stack Overflow, instead of writing every link as http://stackoverflow.com/whatever, will usually use a relative URL instead: /whatever.

There are a few simple rules that your browser follows when turning an href tag into a web address (in this example, we're starting from this page: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15078748/how-to-make-working-path-in-html#15078792)

  • If the link starts with http:// (or anything else that comes before a ://), then your browser will take you exactly there. For example: http://stackoverflow.com takes you to the Stack Overflow home page.
  • If the link starts with /, then the browser will take you out of any subfolders before executing the rest of the link. For example: /election will take you here: http://stackoverflow.com/election
  • If the link starts with ../, then it will send you exactly one folder up. This can be done multiple times. For example. ../ will send you here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/ .
  • If the link starts with a question mark, ampersand, or hash tag, (?, &, #) then it will usually append this to whatever page you are currently on. #example would take you to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15078748/how-to-make-working-path-in-html#example .
  • Finally, the browser will keep you in your current folder, then send you to that link, for example: example will send you here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15078748/example

Upvotes: 1

sissi_luaty
sissi_luaty

Reputation: 2889

In simple words, you have to write:

<a href="./index.html">...</a>

to link to index.html a page which is in the same directory as your file index.html;

examples:
./my_page.html
use the "./" for linking pages in the same directory;

if the source and dest pages are in different folders, you shall use:
../my_page.html
or
./folder_path/my_page.html
according to the relative paths of the pages.

Upvotes: 0

Mario
Mario

Reputation: 420

You must use relative paths not absolute paths.

Upvotes: 0

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