How do I link back out of a folder using the a-href tag?

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Alright so I have a page in a folder, the page is called jobs.html and the folder is simply called "jobs". Its a sub folder of my mine "website" folder. In the main directory of the "main" folder is my "home.html" file. When I try to do

<a href="home.html">bla</a>

It malfunctions as it is looking for the home file in the jobs folder, which does not exist.

So I ask, how can I reference out of a folder to call a file from the root folder?

Has already been answered before: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5559578/having-links-relative-to-root — WP_, Dec 15 '13 at 21:15
b.t.w a way to make urls simple in you code is to have a server side constant which holdes the base url of your site (let say BASE_URL) then all your urls would be a. full and not relative) and B. simpler — Itay Moav -Malimovka, Dec 15 '13 at 21:18

score 28 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 15 '13 at 21:14

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Try setting your link to be your site root as so; note the / in front of home.html:

<a href="/home.html">bla</a>

Or if you know the path is definitely one directory down then just explicitly tell it to go down 1 directory; note the ../ in front of the home.html.

<a href="../home.html">bla</a>

answered Dec 15 '13 at 21:14

Giacomo1968

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For some reason putting the /home rather than ../home lead straight to my root directory on C:, which is strange. The double dots ended up working though. – Dec 15 '13 at 21:25
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Well, the `/home.html` would work if you are loading the page through a web server. If it is going to your root directory on your `C:` drive, then you are loading the page as straight HTML in your browser. – Giacomo1968 Dec 15 '13 at 21:32

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited Aug 29 '16 at 17:37

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You can move up a directory by using ../ before your html document. So if home.html is up one directory, you could do:

<a href="../home.html">bla</a>

edited Aug 29 '16 at 17:37

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answered Dec 15 '13 at 21:14

CDub

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Great, respect ++ – Muhammad Ali Sep 08 '21 at 10:42

How do I link back out of a folder using the a-href tag?

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