I know you can use this in php code, and the $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] brings the browser to the root and navigates to the file from there.

Is there a way to do this in HTML/CSS when including a stylesheet, as this would be very helpful if i have some subfolders on my site etc??

Thanks for ya help

Craig

Not using PHP ... why don't you just do



the leading slash brings you to the root.

This sounds like you need the BASE TAG!!!

Never used it myself but I came across it a while ago, seems to fit your needs.

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_base.asp

That is exactly what i mean mate thanks a lot

As usual excellent and accurate answer

Just to make sure I understand this thing properly.

If I was to have a site set up like this

root/index.hmtl
root/aboutus.html
root/news/studentnews.html
root/news/industrynews.html

Then as long as I put
<base href="root/" />

into the header of each page (obviously root/ would be replaced with the actual directory)
then on my studentnews.html page instead of linking to the index page with <a href="../index.html"> I could just have <a href="index.html">

However if I was linking to the industrynews.html page instead of <a href="industrynews.html"> I'd have to have <a href="news/industrynews.html">

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Does this sound right? If this is right I'm very glad I've learnt this it will make it a lot easier to navigate my site whilst working on it! I can actually use subfolders without manually adjusting the navigation for each folder!

Yeh i think that's it mate, and this is what i needed it for as when ever i used sub folders it messed everything up.

Itsumishi I believe that sounds about right.

Yep had a bit of a fiddle with this late last night, didn't get a chance to post it up.
That's quite a handy little piece of code. I found my site had quickly grown to a quite a large number of pages and it was becoming a little hard to manage. This will surely help!