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HTML HTML Basics Images, Text and Links Understanding File Paths

Posted by Peter Kelly
Peter Kelly
2,485 Points

I'm using href="olr/picture.jpg". My html and picture.jpg are in the same child folder "olr". File not found. What next?

I'm trying to use this file path olr -picture.jpg for this code: | <a href="olr/picture.jpg">html script</a> html But it's not finding the file. "olr" is a child folder under Documents. Not sure what to do next.

2 Answers

Nicole Antonino
Nicole Antonino
12,834 Points
Nicole Antonino
Nicole Antonino
12,834 Points

If the html file and the image.jpg are both in orl, then you don't need to write '/olr' in the source link.

You write:

<a href="picture.jpg">html script</a>

By writing "olr/picture.jpg" your computer basically thinks there is another folder named olr within the original olr folder and that picture.jpg is in there.

Fran ADP
Fran ADP
6,304 Points
Fran ADP
Fran ADP
6,304 Points

If it is a relative image you can use as a shortcut '/'.