The Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
A URL, or address, is a path through directories from the site’s root to a particular file. There are two types of URLs, relative and absolute.
Absolute Addresses
An absolute address is the url. The following link uses an absolute address mapped to example.com:
<a href="http://example.com">Example.com</a>
Relative Addresses
A relative address bases your next move on its current position in the file structure on the server.
If you were at http://example.com/page2.html, and you wanted to make a link to page3.html, you would simply type:
<a href="page3.html">Page 3</a>
Besides being less to type, it has a great advantage over the absolute address. If you were to move example.com to examplemania.com, you will need to rewrite every absolute address, but the relative address stay the same.
Example and Breakdown of Absolute and Relative
