Question

I would like to access a local file in the immediate directory

From my understanding, you’d usually have to do something like

file://path/to/file/document.html

which requires the full path, but I would like to do something like

file://./document.html

instead, where ./ represents the current directory reference, so that I do not have to know the directory path nor make any assumptions about it.

is there any trickery like that possible with html file paths?

Answer 1

Use:

document.html

With no protocol specified, and no / for directories, the browser should request the asset from the same directory/folder that the current page is at.