Relative Addressing
Relative addressing is useful in a hierarchical structure for
linking purposes. Relative addressing allows a person to transfer
a domain from one server and implant the domain into their own
surrogate server without having to rename every single link in
every document contained within the domain. Whereas absolute addressing
gives the whole address of a document in order to find it, relative
addressing gives directions as to where the document is
located relative to your current position in the domain.
To address a link in the document which is: In the URL Text
Box, input:
- in the same directory: *.html
- down one level: (directory name)/*.html
- up one level: ../*.html
- up two levels: ../../*.html
- in a sibling directory, up, down, sib.directory: ../(SibDirName)/*.html
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