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Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by oo7ml, Sep 12, 2007.

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    I have a page that needs to be in a new folder within the current sites directory. At first none of the links or images would show up until i put ../ infront of them all.

    Can someone explain to me how the ../ works and does the number of .. mean anything, thanks
     
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  2. okgaz

    okgaz Well-Known Member

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    ../ moves up a directory.
     
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    Do you really need those dots? I don't even use them on my site, and my images appear ok with only the "/".
     
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    Indian_Webmaster Banned

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    Yes ../ is needed...
     
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    Yes as Indian_Webmaster has said, the double dots "../" are needed to move up one directory. Just a slash "/" would mean to look for a child directory inside the current one..

    To move up two directories would be like ../../directory

    Boulder

    :cool:
     
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    Stomme poes Peon

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    If your images show up fine without the dots, then don't use them. The dots stand for current directory (or one below/further if you use ../../image.gif). If you only use / then that means your images are exactly the same folder/directory as your html and css.

    If my site, www.foo.com is directly on my server (/website/foo.html) and the images for the foo site are direct (/image.gif, /freebeer.jpg) then only slashes are needed. But let's say foo is at /website/foo.html and the images are in the main folder/dircetory. Then the dots come in.

    directory:
    / (r00t)
    /website/foo.html
    /freebeer.jpg
    /freespeech.jpg

    Now, you need the whole path. You can either use "http://www.foo.com/freebeer.jpg" OR you can replace the main foo folder with "../freebeer.jpg" the dots meaning in this case "don't stay in /website where foo is, but go back to the main part."
     
    Stomme poes, Sep 12, 2007 IP