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If I have files in a folder and I need it to refer to a link in the PREVIOUS
folder, how do I have it do that?

I have been trying for HOURS--yes, HOURS--to figure this out, look for a
reference on the Internet. I am totally stuck.

So if I am in the photo_pages/files and I need it to "back up" to
photo_pages (NOT under "files") and refer to a file there, what would the
path look like?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry R Harrison Jr" <>
Newsgroups: alt.html
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 11:26 AM
Subject: Previous Level FilePath


> If I have files in a folder and I need it to refer to a link in the
> PREVIOUS
> folder, how do I have it do that?
>
> I have been trying for HOURS--yes, HOURS--to figure this out, look for a
> reference on the Internet. I am totally stuck.
>
> So if I am in the photo_pages/files and I need it to "back up" to
> photo_pages (NOT under "files") and refer to a file there, what would the
> path look like?
>
>

"../photo_pages/index.html" (without parenthenses)

Larry R Harrison Jr wrote:
> If I have files in a folder and I need it to refer to a link in the PREVIOUS
> folder, how do I have it do that?
>
> I have been trying for HOURS--yes, HOURS--to figure this out, look for a
> reference on the Internet. I am totally stuck.
>
> So if I am in the photo_pages/files and I need it to "back up" to
> photo_pages (NOT under "files") and refer to a file there, what would the
> path look like?
>
>

.../myfile

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SpaceGirl wrote:

> Larry R Harrison Jr wrote:
>
>> If I have files in a folder and I need it to refer to a link in the
>> PREVIOUS
>> folder, how do I have it do that?
>>
>> I have been trying for HOURS--yes, HOURS--to figure this out, look for a
>> reference on the Internet. I am totally stuck.
>>
>> So if I am in the photo_pages/files and I need it to "back up" to
>> photo_pages (NOT under "files") and refer to a file there, what would the
>> path look like?
>>
>>
>
> ../myfile
>

or rather ../myfile.htm

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"lostinspace" <> wrote in
news:UP3Vc.5385$ m:

> From: "Larry R Harrison Jr" <>
>
>> If I have files in a folder and I need it to refer to a link in the
>> PREVIOUS
>> folder, how do I have it do that?
>
> "../photo_pages/index.html" (without parenthenses)

You used quotation marks, not parentheses

When pointing to a index.html file, it is usually prettier to leave it
out, with "../photo_pages/".

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Larry R Harrison Jr <> wrote:
> If I have files in a folder and I need it to refer to a link in the PREVIOUS
> folder, how do I have it do that?

Assuming a unixish file system or an emulation of one:

The current directory is referred to as ./ but is optional.

The parent directory, one level "up" the hierarchy, is ../

The parent of the parent directory is ../../

See the trend? The parent directory three levels up is ../../../

So, to hit the file index.html in the directory two levels up from the
current directory: ../../index.html (or maybe just ../../ if, as is
true in most cases, index.html is considered the default index
document.)

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Sam Hughes wrote:

> When pointing to a index.html file, it is usually prettier to leave it
> out, with "../photo_pages/".

Though "../photo_pages/" and "../photo_pages/index.html" might be two
entirely different files.

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