Am trying to learn web development by creating a website my own instead learning every single theory written on a textbook.

Currently am trying to link a stylesheet and favicon on my root folder into the file called debian.html and debian-post-install.html. But it’s not working and I don’t know why.

code used inside both html files head section are,

<link rel="stylesheet" href="/styles/style.css" />

<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="/images/favicon.png" />

To point to the root directory files or directories we use / in html instead of ../ right? Then why it’s not working.

Also I need advice on how bad is my html file structuring and what changes recommended.

Solution

<link rel="stylesheet" href="../../styles/style.css" />

<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="../../images/favicon.png" />

  • tumbling4986@lemmy.caOP
    3·
    2 days ago

    In stack overflow i saw,

    / = root of the current drive, ./ = current directory, ../ = parent of the current directory.

    What exactly is this .../ ?

    Btw, I solved it by writing the path like this,

    <link rel="stylesheet" href="../../styles/style.css" />

    <link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="../../images/favicon.png" />

    Thank you for taking time to answer me.

    • Hemuphone@lemmy.world
      21·
      2 days ago

      / being root directory does not apply to the web browser.

      …/ means nothing, as its not defined. Results may vary based on interpreter, but nothing useful.

      On href, I think all 3: style.css, /style.css, ./style.css point to the same place.

      • Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        1 hour ago

        On href, I think all 3: style.css, /style.css, ./style.css point to the same place.

        no, they do not. (click for details)

        those three do not always resolve to the same thing: the first and last are relative, while the second is absolute.

        from a file at http://example.com/index.html, all three would resolve to http://example.com/style.css.

        But from a file at http://example.com/foo/index.html the href="style.css" and href="./style.css" will both resolve to http://example.com/foo/style.css while href="/style.css" will continue to resolve to the file at the root (http://example.com/style.css).