AquaFox

pretend i'm in folder TFP.com/folder1/folder2.... i have an html page in folder2, and i want to link to a document in folder one, with a relative link... i don't want to type in the full link, i want it to know to go up a directory to folder one.. how do i do this again?

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pixelbend

../document.html

if you have TFP/folder1 and TFP/folder2 it would be ../folder1/document.html

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But I don't want ANY Spam!

Jinn

../document1.doc

the .. is the relative "parent directory" information for HTML.

That said, if you perform this on a website you do not know, you can be charged with felony computer trespass. Fuckin' ridiculous, I know.. but true.

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?si...id=123&tid=219

Show them there ARE legitimate uses for this -- like this one.

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Jinn

PIXEL, YOU SON OF A BITCH!!

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AquaFox

i'm the administrator on the site i'm doing this with






i've been doing three dots, instead of two!!!!!

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ratbastid

You silly monkey! It's two dots!

Seriously, though, I've never seen the point of relative URLs. They're VERY fragile. An absolute URL, drawn from DocumentRoot, will survive no matter what directory you might someday choose to put that file into. Why is it better to say "../file.html" than to say "/folder1/file.html"? In once case, you're codifying the location of the target, in the other, you're codifying the location of the source AND the target. I'm always going to opt for the more flexible option.

AquaFox

i'm actually an administrator on my own forum, and i was adding rank images under the user names, i allready had all the little stars and graphics on the server, but they were in another directory since they are also being used with something else, so rather than making a new copy of them, i wanted to figure out a way to just relink them.. the txt box requires a relative link, soo i just figured i might well try the .../



i think they should make the triple dot work too




btw, TFP inspired me to do some revamping on the forum! i love the forum concepts here

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