HTML Links & Relative Links

Question 1

What HTML tag is used to link to another website?

Answer 1

< a > ; also called anchor tag

Question 2

What is an absolute URL?

Answer 2

A URL that starts with the domain name of the site and followed by the path to a specific page.

Question 3

What is a relative URL?

Answer 3

A URL that does not have the domain name in its pathway because this URL links to a pathway in its own domain.

Question 4

How do you indicate the relative link to a parent directory?

Answer 4

../

Question 5

How do you indicate the relative link to a child directory?

Answer 5

childfoldername/filename

Question 6

How do you indicate the relative link to a grandparent directory?

Answer 6

../../

Question 7

How do you indicate the relative link to the same directory?

Answer 7

just the file name (and ./filename is also acceptable)

Question 8

How do you indicate the relative link to a grandchild directory?

Answer 8

childfoldername/grandchildfoldername/filename