Up One Directory In Url How do I...?

For some reason I thought it was possible to have a url in the form of "../file.html" Meaning if you were at the page "https://www.salesforce.com/products/platform/overview/ and there was a link in main.html that said "../file.html" it would take you to https://www.salesforce.com/products/platform/overview/ Anyone know the proper syntax for this, or do I just need to put the full URL in place? It's a whole lot easier if I don't have to put the whole URL in place...because it makes ftping and editing from other locations SOOOO much more convenient.

You are correct. The "../" tells the path to go up one directory. There can be multiple occurences, too, like "../../" to go up two levels.
Do a Google on "relative links" because that is what they are. Also, search the forum here, because this has come up before.
Also, on Apache servers there are "Server Absolute Links", but they aren't recognized on all servers, so use them carefully.

Here is a link from our Xisto forums that might help.

Relative Links - URLs

Yes, from what I know, the ../ is the correct way to put it. You just have to make sure that you do indeed have the file that you are calling in the folder one level up......I had no idea that all servers don't recognise relative links. Is this something that I should be worried about when making them, or is this 'apache' server not what we use. I'm all confused, but what else is new lol...

I hardly ever use relative links. I find absolute paths much easier to work with.

Sorry for double posting but didn't read all of the original post properly the first time.

Anyone know the proper syntax for this, or do I just need to put the full URL in place?  It's a whole lot easier if I don't have to put the whole URL in place.

To go with what I posted above about absolute paths, you don't have to type the full URL, just do this: /stuff/file.html.

Here is a sample file showing server absolute, relative, and absolute links.

Jim's sample of linkingl

Do a viiew source of test2-1 to see the worst case scenario. It can get ugly.

Hope this helps some one.

Edited January 11, 2006 by jlhaslip (see edit history)