torn junco
I have the following code in an HTML file :
<button onclick="window.location.replace('..\Login\login.html');">
Login</button>
(Attemping to make a login page)
However this button links to ..\Homepage/..Loginlogin.html instead (obviously not a valid path). Any reason why this could be happening?
hushed hull
Use forward slashes not back slashes. Only Windows file paths use back slashes. Web URLs and Unix file paths all use forward slashes even if referencing a file on a Windows system.
If you want a URL to be relative to the current page do not start the URL with a slash. If you want it to be relative to the domain start it with a slash.
So when you're at example.com/hello
some/page would go to example.com/hello/some/page
/some/page would go to example.com/some/page (notice hello isn't in the URL now)
I do not think JavaScript will honor .. in a URL btw. I'm not 100% but I think that's the case.
torn junco
Use forward slashes not back slashes. Only Windows file paths use back slashes. ...
Thank you very much 😄
I've got it working
it does seem as if .. does still work
what's strange is that I'd been using backslashes so far in other links in my code