Relative Path

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In contrast to the absolute path of a resource, the relative path points to a resource (or a file if on a file system) relative to the current location (the URL of the page being viewed, if on the web, or the current working directory, if in a file system).

This is useful if you don't want or need to provide a full URL to link to a resource on your site.

For example, if you want to link to a CSS file from your web page, you could include a <link> tag with an href value pointing to the CSS file, like this: <link rel="stylesheet" href="/styles/global.css">. This is a relative path because it assumes that the page linking to this CSS file is located in the same directory as the styles directory, which contains the file global.css.