Question

The physical folder structure on my web server is:

inetpub
oo|
oo|_wwwroot
oooooo|
oooooo|_MyApp —-> this is the root folder of my web application
oooooooooo|
oooooooooo|_images
oooooooooo|
oooooooooo|_styles
oooooooooo|
oooooooooo|_pages

I have an html file (test.html) under the pages folder. I want to link to other files (eg. stylesheets and images) via absolute paths. So, I have a line of code similar to this:

<img src="/images/roundbutton.png" />

When the page is rendered, the image is not displayed, as the “/” tells it to look for the image in a folder wwwroot/images.

Is there another way to use absolute paths to refer to the application root, instead of the site root? Or is using relative paths the only other option?

Answer 1

Yes, use the <base> element.