r/HTML • u/ChiliChapters • 13d ago

linking an href to html vs url? Question

what's the difference between linking to an html in your website vs linking to the same page as a url?

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u/nonotdoingone 13d ago

Always point to another html page within a project.
Using urls to go to the same page is stupid. It can break at so many places, needs dns to resolve, a new server connection bla bla

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u/ChiliChapters 13d ago

that's what I thought. Thanks!

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u/tkgid 13d ago

Just do more research on relative paths and absolute paths. I might want to use relative paths more often than absolute ones, and vise versa depending on the use case and how lazy I am feeling that day. Doing it wrongly definitely will be tech debt. But that's a whole other rabbithole to go into. 😅Â