Links not going back a directory

Question

this is probably a silly question and I have the answer myself but I want to know if I am doing anything wrong  I have a website  let s call it www mysite com  Within this site  I have some FAQs but the person that built the site saved the FAQ pages under a directory on the site named  FAQs     As an example an FAQ page would be located at    www mysite com pages en faqs faq-page1 html    Note the pages en  directory  Ideally I would like all the pages to be saved under www mysite com index html etc but I can t change this   Anyway  when I am on any of these FAQ pages  and I try to link back to say the home page index html the navigation won t go to the page  So for example  when I am on   www mysite com pages en faqs faq-page1 html   and I try to link back to the home page   www mysite com pages en index html  which is where the index page is saved  the nav won t work  Instead it will try to go to www mysite com pages en faqs index html    Now I am assuming this happens because I am in the  faq  directory  but how do I go back to the root directory when linking  The code for the link is simply  lt a href  index html  gt Home lt  a gt   I could of course just put in the full link www mysite com pages en index html  which would solve this but is there another way around this  Sorry for such a long post and I may have been able to explain this better but I can t  S  Thanks in advance

User · Accepted Answer

You need to give a relative file path of <a href="../index.html">Home</a>

Alternately you can specify a link from the root of your site with <a href="/pages/en/index.html">Home</a>

.. and . have special meanings in file paths, .. means up one directory and . means current directory.

so <a href="index.html">Home</a> is the same as <a href="./index.html">Home</a>

User · Answer

There are two type of paths  absolute and relative  This is basically the same for files in your hard disc and directories in a URL   Absolute paths start with a leading slash  They always point to the same location  no matter where you use them     pages en faqs faq-page1 html   Relative paths are the rest  all that do not start with slash   The location they point to depends on where you are using them   index html is    pages en faqs index html if called from  pages en faqs faq-page1 html  pages index html if called from  pages example html etc     There are also two special directory names    and         means  current directory     means  parent directory    You can use them to build relative paths       index html is  pages en index html if called from  pages en faqs faq-page1 html       index html is  pages index html if called from  pages en faqs faq-page1 html   Once you re familiar with the terms  it s easy to understand what it s failing and how to fix it  You have two options    Use absolute paths Fix your relative paths

User · Answer

To go up a directory in a link  use      This means  go up one directory   so your link will look something like this    lt a href     index html  gt Home lt  a gt

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