Question

Is it possible to open a file from the parent folder?

lets say I have this file tree

parent
    other
        file.pdf
    website
        index.html

and I wanted to open file.pdf from index using the a tag, how would I do it? Is it possible?

Answer 1

Use the “special instruction” .. to traverse “up” a directory level:

<a href="../other/file.pdf">file.pdf</a>

It can be repeated multiple times to continue traverse up the folder hierarchy.