Marco Fregoso
Reputation: 65
What would a forward slash mean in a href attribute?
in other words, what would this do? How does it actually work
<li><a href="/">Home</a></li>
Upvotes: 1
Views: 570
Answers (1)
Ru Chern Chong
Reputation: 3756
It refers to the base URL of the webpage.
So if your URL is https://example.com, href="/" leads you to that.
Upvotes: 1
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