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Link to index page of website

Is there a way to link to the index page of a website without specifying the name of the index page or the full website URL?

I have this:

<a href="index.htm">Home</a>

But when I click the link, my address bar shows:

mydomain.com/index.html

I would like it to show:

mydomain.com

Can I do that without putting the full URL (mydomain.com) in the href? If so, how?

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Solution

  • You can just do this:

    <a href="/">Home</a>

    Any href preceded by a slash is relative the root directory.

    It should be noted that when viewing a webpage from a local hard drive in a browser, this will cause the link not to function.