Relative and Absolute Hyperlinks
The hyperlinks described so far have all had complete addresses. In other words, all the information required to navigate to a given point is present in the hyperlink itself. These types of hyperlinks are absolute hyperlinks. The following are absolute hyperlinks:
http://www.microsoft.com ftp://ftp.microsoft.com
Anyone, anywhere, can click on a hyperlink with this address and go to that point (assuming they're on the Internet).
Relative hyperlinks are hyperlinks that point to a place relative to your current location on a Web site, for example, one folder down from the Web site root. Imagine you're building a home page for maxheadroom.com. In that page you want to build a hyperlink to a file, cast.htm, which ...
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