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relative and absolute addresses gif html cmd ctrl bluefox yellow pages post url http href anchor base meta news groups
relative and absolute addresses gif html url http href anchor base meta cmd ctrl bluefox yellow pages post news groups

A relative address describes the path from one web page to another within the same server instead of using the full internet address which is called an absolute address (URL). It's like going from one room to another in the same house when you use relative addresses instead of leaving the house and coming back to the same house.

Here is an absolute address:

http://www.wtv-zone.com/bluefox/images/us_flag.gif

Here is the same address but used as a relative address:

images/us_flag.gif

Images is my sub-directory and us_flag is the file and gif is the extension.

This part is called the base href <base href="http://www.wtv-zone.com/bluefox/">

Put the above all together and you have an URL aka Uniform Resource Locator. or internet address

Now on your web page instead of using:

<img width="100" height="60" border="0" src="http://www.wtv-zone.com/bluefox/images/us_flag.gif" alt="flag">

You can use:

<img width="100" height="60" border="0" src="images/us_flag.gif" alt="flag">

If you use a relative URL in a sub-directory and want to go to your root directory or another sub directory it is necessary to use ../ in front of the relative URL like this:
<a href="../menu.html">text goes here</a>
I know the previous method is necessary and works at GeoCities and The Zone.  That's two dots then the forward slash then the relative URL.

Any address (URL) whether it is an image, hyperlink etc., etc. may be used in this manner. Some file servers will not allow relative URL's without first using a base href command nor will they work in some sub-directories without the use of ../ as previously mentioned above. So simply add <base href="your_base_here"> (mine as an example is <base href="http://www.wtv-zone.com/bluefox/">) in between the head tags. This is another way to enhance faster loading. The new HTML standards may be read about here. Further information about the base href command can be found here.

relative and absolute addresses gif html url http href anchor base meta cmd ctrl bluefox yellow pages post news groups

Internal linkng is used for the "To The Top", "Back To The Top" links, going from one topic to another within or on the same page. The below will explain from one page to a particular section or topic or internal link on another page.

<a href="http://next page dot html#red">red</a>
<a href="http://next page dot html#white">white</a>
<a href="http://next page dot html#blue">blue</a>

Now place the below on your page where you want the person to go to that you have named red, white or blue using the examples shown here:
<a name="red"></a>
<a name="white"></a>
<a name="blue"></a>

You can just use the below:
<a href="#dog"></a>
<a href="#horse"></a>
<a href="#turtle"></a>
on a page of your choice and to have another person go to that particular part of the page simply add the #xxxx after the URL.  For more about man's best friend click <a href="URL dot html#dog">here</a>
or the full absolute URL when posting
http://www.wtv-zone.com/bluefox/animal.html#dog
or using the absolute URL in an HTML message when used as a hyper link.  The above is only an example.

I have a page on How To CC&P and on that same page I have a topic on How To Smallify. The absolute URL is http://www.wtv-zone.com/bluefox/tutes.ccp.html and if I want them to go to the beginning of the smallify section the URL would look like this http://www.wtv-zone.com/bluefox/tutes.ccp.html#small so click here and you're there.

The above looks like this:
click <a href="tutes/ccp.html#small">here</a> and you're there.


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