Question

I have seen a few examples with <a href=".">link to folder</a> but i realy don’t understant what it is or how to manipulate it or get it to set the specific html page within the folder.
My website is a basic one with only CSS and HTML
it is formatted as

[file]home.html // C:/Users/user/Desktop/mywebsite/home.html
[folder]Order // C:/Users/user/Desktop/mywebsite/order/
 ↳[file]ordersheet.html // C:/Users/user/Desktop/mywebsite/order/ordersheet.html

I want to try set the folder path C:/Users/user/Desktop/mywebsite/order/ as the file ordersheet.html C:/Users/user/Desktop/mywebsite/order/ordersheet.html how can this be done?

Answer 1

To set /order to ordersheet.html change the name of ordersheet.html to index.html

The index.html is the default file that the server will serve to the visitor when he visits that specific directory.

<a href="/Users/user/Desktop/mywebsite/order/">link text</a>

link text = what you want it to say to the user

/Users/user/Desktop/mywebsite/order/ = directory path

Keep in mind that this will only work locally. If you have it up on a server, visitors don’t have access to your full C:/ drive so you have to use relative links, i.e. just /order/