I realize the differences between relative links:

../images/pic.jpg is a document relative link

/images/pic.jpg is a root relative link

But I've seen things like this:

./images/pic.jpg with only one dot - what does this mean? Is this simply a shortcut?

Thanks

Hi dstoltz,

./ is also a document relative path. The single dot means "current directory".

So ./images/pic.jpg is that you are specifying:

the pic.jpg file in images directory which is located in the current directory.

Hope it helps.
Noz

Thanks - so what you're saying is

img src="./images/pic.jpg"

is the exact same as:

img src="images/pic.jpg"

????

That seems silly to even bother with the "./" then.....

Using "." (single dot) to represent a current working directory becomes very handy when you work on Unix environment. Unix has a concept of $PATH. If the command or the program you attempt to run does not exist in "your directory path" specified for $PATH, the system will not recognize it, thus will not run it.

If your current directory includes the program or the command, you want to run it by "./myProgram" rather than writing its absolute path because an absolute path can be very long sometimes and you just want to lower possiblities of mistyping.

Anyway, as far as an anchor tag is concerned, it does not really matter if you specify a relative link with "./" or without. <img src=../images/dmxzone/forum/icon_smile.gif border=0 align=middle>

- noz

Edited by - Noz on 11 Nov 2003 06:26:24

Now I got it...

Ok that makes sense!

Thanks for the explaination!