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HTML How to Make a Website Creating HTML Content Organize with Unordered Lists

Tiffany Lin
Tiffany Lin
1,086 Points
Posted by Tiffany Lin
Tiffany Lin
1,086 Points

Why do you have to put "img/" in front of the file names when inserting images? i.e. <img src="img/numbers=01.jpg">

I was notified that I left out the "img/" part of the code but that wasn't mentioned in the video or true for other parts of the code.

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>Nick Pettit</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <header>
      <a href="index.html">
        <h1>Nick Pettit</h1>
        <h2>Designer</h2>
      </a>
      <nav>
        <ul>
          <li><a href="index.html">Portfolio</a></li>
          <li><a href="about.html">About</a></li>
          <li><a href="contact.html">Contact</a></li>
        </ul>
      </nav>
    </header>
    <section>
    </section>
    <footer>
      <p>&copy; 2013 Nick Pettit.</p>
    </footer>
  </body>
</html>
Victor Learned
Victor Learned
6,976 Points
Victor Learned
Victor Learned
6,976 Points

You must add "img/" so it creates a valid relative path. This enables the web browser to correctly find the required files when it attempts to load the images. If you didn't add it the pictures would need to be in the same directory as the html page that is attempting to load them or they wouldn't load.

Tiffany Lin
Tiffany Lin
1,086 Points
Tiffany Lin
Tiffany Lin
1,086 Points

Thank you Victor Learned - that makes sense!

Kevin Chau
Kevin Chau
5,874 Points
Kevin Chau
Kevin Chau
5,874 Points

Victor is correct. However, to add on to his explanation and to put it in simple terms. Its like using a dictionary. To find what "computer" means, you'd go to the "C" section of the dictionary first.

The "img/" tells your computer what folder(path) the image is in.

2 Answers

Kevin Mulhern
Kevin Mulhern
20,374 Points
Kevin Mulhern
Kevin Mulhern
20,374 Points

The "img/" refers to a folder that is in your project folder. for example in a basic website you would have a folder for images and a folder for css files etc.

michaelangelo owildeberry
michaelangelo owildeberry
18,173 Points
michaelangelo owildeberry
michaelangelo owildeberry
18,173 Points

Because that is specifying what folder the file will come from. =)

did I give the best answer?

=D