Posted by Harlan Messinger on 07/31/06 12:52

dorayme wrote:
> In article <36954$44cd6564$40cba7c5$32121@NAXS.COM>,
> "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@centralva.net> wrote:
>
>>> At least in my copy of this post of yours, there is a missing
>>> stop in the above. src="./etc" should have ../
>>>
>>> That's how I do it to go up a directory anyway...
>>>
>> No he has it correct if the relationship is below
>
> The things I don't know! I use "this.html" to stay in the same
> directory and "this.html" to really stay in the same directory
> and "this.html" to really really stay in the same directory (hey
> Luigi, this is childish, no?) and "../this.html" to up one and
> "../../this.html" to up two and so on. This is the world I know
> and live in.
>
> But I have now learnt something new from you... who would have
> thought one dot would mean something?

The main reason you would use it is to link to the current directory
itself, i.e., its default resource, without naming it explicitly:

href="./"

Otherwise, I don't think there's much reason to use it.

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