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I think dorward has hit on the primary reason for keeping the links document- relative...portability. &nbsp;The only time is use root-relative links is for secure<br />
ass on intranets where I need access limitations resident on the local domains<br />
on the local domains.<br />
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For general purpose apps an just about everything on the Internet, document-<br />
relative, is the best way to go.<br />
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Cd&amp;<br />

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I think dorward has hit on the primary reason for keeping the links document- relative...portability.  The only time is use root-relative links is for secure
ass on intranets where I need access limitations resident on the local domains
on the local domains.

For general purpose apps an just about everything on the Internet, document-
relative, is the best way to go.

Cd&


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Thanks, I will also be putting some of these onto CD so that's a good point.<br />

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Thanks, I will also be putting some of these onto CD so that's a good point.


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Is it better to use root-relative links or document-relative links? I am writing simple HTML code, no dynamic loading of pages, and I have heard different opinions about this. It seems that if you don't expect the subdirectories to change then document-relative links should be okay. The webpages concerned are static: they are electronic versions of annual reports, etc. which have been released in hard copy, and each one consists of a collection of subdirectories containing several documents (linked to the contents.htm and index.htm pages) which should not change once they are uploaded to a website. 
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Is it better to use root-relative links or document-relative links? I am writing simple HTML code, no dynamic loading of pages, and I have heard different opinions about this. It seems that if you don't expect the subdirectories to change then document-relative links should be okay. The webpages concerned are static: they are electronic versions of annual reports, etc. which have been released in hard copy, and each one consists of a collection of subdirectories containing several documents (linked to the contents.htm and index.htm pages) which should not change once they are uploaded to a website. 

Root-relative versus document-relative links

HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is the main markup language for creating web pages and other information to be displayed in a web browser, providing both the structure and content for what is sent from a web server through the use of tags. The current implementation of the HTML specification is HTML5.