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by johncmouser 2232 days ago
I thought that "/" was absolute and "../../something/else" was relative.
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btrettel 2232 days ago
In my notes I had this called "site relative" following this Stack Exchange post: https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/a/71376/12374

But you're right; relative by itself would refer to relative to the current location. Error on my part in not being specific enough. In retrospect "site relative" is not good terminology.

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deaddodo 2232 days ago
It's URL relative.

Example, for "http://mysite.com/dir/page1.html":

    * Relative:     "../other_dir/page2.html"
    * URL relative: "/other_dir/page2.html"
    * Absolute:     "http://mysite.com/other_dir/page2.html"
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