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Pathnames


When you specify just the pathname of a linked file within quotes, the browser looks for that file in the same directory as the current file. But linking pages may be contained in different directories or folders.

href="file.html" file.html is located in the current directory
href="more/file.html" file.html is located in the directory call more (more directory is located in the current directory)
href="../file.html" file.html is located in the directory one level up from the current directory



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