relative path to CSS file [closed]

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Background

Absolute:
The browser will always interpret / as the root of the hostname. For example, if my site was http://google.com/ and I specified /css/images.css then it would search for that at http://google.com/css/images.css. If your project root was actually at /myproject/ it would not find the css file. Therefore, you need to determine where your project folder root is relative to the hostname, and specify that in your href notation.

Relative: If you want to reference something you know is in the same path on the url – that is, if it is in the same folder, for example http://mysite.com/myUrlPath/index.html and http://mysite.com/myUrlPath/css/style.css, and you know that it will always be this way, you can go against convention and specify a relative path by not putting a leading / in front of your path, for example, css/style.css.

Filesystem Notations: Additionally, you can use standard filesystem notations like ... If you do http://google.com/images/../images/../images/myImage.png it would be the same as http://google.com/images/myImage.png. If you want to reference something that is one directory up from your file, use ../myFile.css.

Your Specific Case

In your case, you have two options:

  • <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://stackoverflow.com/ServletApp/css/styles.css"/>
  • <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17621324/css/styles.css"/>

The first will be more concrete and compatible if you move things around, however if you are planning to keep the file in the same location, and you are planning to remove the /ServletApp/ part of the URL, then the second solution is better.

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