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" />

  • Hemuphone@lemmy.world
    6·
    4 days ago

    This seems like the least efficient way possible to solve a problem, but here we are. I’m too lazy to actually test/research this, so this is only my best guess.

    HTML links are pretty much always relative. You cannot think of it like linux filesystem where / would be root. Here, …/ would likely work much better for you. Should be quick to test a few combinations.

    About the html file structuring, I think it truly does not matter. There isn’t a very widely used ruleset for this. No modern web application is built using raw html files, as most are single-page applications built on top of react/vue/etc. But for learning html/css/etc basics, this is probably a good way to start to understand what the browser actually will see.

    • tumbling4986@lemmy.caOP
      4·
      4 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
        2·
        4 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
          2·
          3 days 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).