What does dot slash refer to in terms of an HTML file path location

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I know     means go up a path  but what does    mean exactly   I was recently going through a tutorial and it seems to be referring to just a file in the same location  so is it necessary at all  Can I just not use it if that s all it s doing

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A fast and small recap about paths Absolute paths http   website com assets image jpg IF the image is not on your domain - go look there for image    website com assets image jpg image loaded using http or https protocols  Relative paths  For internal use if the image is on the same server   image jpg image in the same place as the document calling the image     image jpg Same as above   image in the same place as the document calling the image    assets image jpg Similar to Absolute Paths  just omitting the protocol and domain name Go search my image starting from my root folder    than into assets   assets image jpg this time assets is in the same place as the document  so go into assets for the image     assets image jpg From where the document is  go one folder back     and go into assets        image jpg go two folders back  there s my image         assets image jpg go two folders back        and than go into assets

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This location      Up a directory   So    foo html is just foo html  And it is optional  but may have relevance if a script generated the path  relevance to the script that is  not how the reference works

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Yes     means the current working directory   You can just reference the file directly by name  without it

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means the root of the current drive      means the current directory       means the parent of the current directory

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In reference to the quick reference list  specifically you can use the following        Root Directory   Current directory  Drive Letter

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You are correct that you can omit it  It s useful only for clarity  There is no functional difference between it being there and not being there

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For example css files are in folder named CSS and html files are in folder HTML  and both these are in folder named XYZ means we refer css files in html as   lt link rel  stylesheet  type  text css  href       CSS style css    gt    Here    moves up to HTML and   refers to the current directory XYZ    ---by this logic you would just reference as      lt link rel  stylesheet  type  text css  href  CSS style css    gt

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is a shorthand for the current directory and is used in Linux and Unix to execute a compiled program in the current directory  That is why you don t see this used in Web Development much except by open source  non-Windows frameworks like Google Angular which was written by people stuck on open source platforms     also resolves to the current directory and is atypical in Web but supported as a path in some open source frameworks  Because it resolves the same as no path to the current file directory its not used  Example    image jpg   image jpg  Again  this is a relic of Unix operating systems that need path resolutions like this to run executables and resolve paths for security reasons  Its not a typical web path  That is why this syntax is redundant      is a traditional web path that goes one directory up   is the ROOT of your website These path resolutions below are true      folder  folder this is always true in web path resolution   file html   file html this is always true in web path resolution       no path  an empty path is the same as    in the web world  no path      an empty path is the same as the web root if your file is in the root directory        ONLY if you are in the root folder         ONLY if you are one folder below the web root

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You can use the following list as quick reference            Root directory          This location          Up a directory          Current directory          Parent of current directory             Two directories backwards   Useful article  https   css-tricks com quick-reminder-about-file-paths

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Yeah    means the directory you re currently in

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is the the folder that the working file is in   So in  index htm    is the root directory but in  css style css    is the css folder   This is important to remember because if you move CSS from  index htm to  css style css the path will change

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