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Asked: 2026-05-24T10:59:57+00:00

In HTML, there are in many pages links which point to a sub-directory, let

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In HTML, there are in many pages links which point to a sub-directory, let us consider 

href="Dir/Subdir/Subdir2/index.html"

On some pages, however, links in a file in a subdirectory point to a different subdirectory at the same level, in a matter as if it was in a relative subdirectory. In other words,

Dir/Subdir/Subdir2/index.html

would contain

a href="Subdir/Subdir3333/index.html"

which would in fact point to

Dir/Subdir/Subdir3333/index.html.

I would think this was wrong, however conventional browsers point to the correct locations.
I have been looking for a solution for quite a while now, though I couldn’t find an answer.

Could you point me to a specific part of HTML documentation which explains how the relative locations work?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can define a base href attribute in your HTML document’s head which makes all relative URLs start at this BASE url.

    See here.

    Otherwise the relative paths work the same as filesystem paths. / to the root (domain) and ../ to go up one directory.

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