relative URL's?

I have a navigation graphic on my website which I created in Fireworks. you click on it and get a popup menu. All was working fine whilst I was just using the root directory but now I have made the directory structure more complex, I have a problem.

For example the site may be showing a picture in www.brickhillsrotary/social/pictureone.html and the navigation button for ome points to index.html. The url therefore moves to www.brickhillsrotary/social/index.html when I really want to be in www.brickhillsrotary/index.html!

I think what I need to do is put something in the link so that it knows to start from the root directory. However when I changed it to /index.html it looked for a url of /index.html!

Thanks in advance for any help,

John

Although your URLs aren't working the way you linked them in the post I think all your looking for is this: href="../index.html". The 2 dots will send them one directory up.

- Terry

ok i think i understand what you are asking

if youve got a page on www.example.com/page.html and you want an image in www.example.com/folder/image.jpg you would referance that as folder/image.jpg

if youve got a page on www.example.com/folder1/page.html and youve got an image on www.example.com/image.jpg, you would use ../image.jpg

so putting the two together, if youve got a page on www.example.com/folder1/page.html and you want an image on www.example.com/folder2/image.jpg you would use ../folder2/image.jpg

if you had a very complex structure it can get abit tricky:

say you have a page in www.example.com/folder1/folder2/page.html and an image in www.example.com/folder3/folder4/folder5/image.jpg you would use ../../folder3/folder4/folder5/image.jpg...

does that help... or have i got a completely wrong idea? ;)

whoops... i type too slow

Thanks you two. That has takenme slightly further forward. However, the graphic that drives the navigation is the same one on all the pages. Therefore where I want it to go to index.htm when I am in the root, I will want it to go ../index.htm when I ams in the social sub.

The image is part of a fireworks designed template so I ideally don't want to change it just on the pages where i drop into a subdirectory.

I was thinking that there must be some way of always providing the href from the root point as it were? If there isn't then maybe I just need to haev a completely flat directory structure for my pages and just use directories for my images (where it seems to work!)

Cheers

John

In that case, why not make it an absolute link, rather than relative?

i.e.
http://www.brickhillsrotary/index.html
not
index.html

That way, it will always link to the same place, regardless of the origin of the link.:)