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[lister]

I never used to do that full URL path to a file but now im thinking about it - reason is b/c I have quite deep directories and it is beginning to get a bit ridicolous with the ../../../../../../filename.html

Maybe its safer to do the full URL path and hence avoid any 404's?

My question is - does it make any difference?

i.e. - for an internal link

1. url="http://mysite/direct...y-4/index.html"

OR

2 url="../../../../../index.html"

THANKS

[chrishirst]

The the document relative ../ syntax should be avoided wherever possible, such URLs are only "correct" from one point in the structure, as each ../ 'says' "the folder above the current one", but using absolute URLs is not necessary either.

What you should use are root relative URIs, where the reference is always the same no matter where the file/folder is in the site structure.

so site.tld/directory/directory/document.ext where the path starts at the first directory in the site root.