What is Absolute Link?

[tevez]

There are three ways you can include the URL in a link. Let's say you're on example.com/folder/subfolder/page.htm and you want to link to example.com/otherfolder/newpage.

You could go for
<a href="../../otherfolder/newpage"> (relative)
<a href="http://example.com/otherfolder/newpage"> (absolute)
<a href="/otherfolder/newpage"> (root)


Which one is best to use will depend on the situation.

[microsoftcygnet]

Hello..
when you link to another page on your web site you specify the complete URL in the link, that  is called Absolute Link..

[tianamartin]

Absolute links Can also be said as relative links. But absolute links on your web page it can affect the your Google ranking by its frequent use. avoid it.

[sanjana]

An absolute link defines a specific location of the web file or dоcument including:the protocol to use to get the dоcument, the server to get it from,the directory it is located in,and the name of the dоcument itself..

[aamish66]

HEy Ellen...,

An absolute URL contains more information than a relative URL does. Relative URLs are more convenient because they are shorter and often more portable. However, you can use them only to reference links on the same server as the page that contains them.

Linking with absolute URLs
An absolute URL typically takes the following form:

  protocol://hostname/other_information