# Creating Links Between Folders

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-links-between-folders/645338>\
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**Created:** [December 15, 2020, 2:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-links-between-folders/645338 "2020-12-15T14:11:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![John\_Stern](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/john_stern/32/12050_2.png) [@John\_Stern](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/John_Stern)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 2:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-links-between-folders/645338/1 "2020-12-15T14:11:34Z")

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So I have been thinking about this issue of the href pointer. So if we have the following hierarchy where one folder contains - one page + 3 folders each with one page like this -

WILL STERN  
omega.html  
FANCY  
bulova.html  
CONTRAST  
timex.html  
ULTIMATE  
casio.html

then, if we have the link “omega” in any of the 3 bottom folders, then we will have an `href=../`  
However, if we have a link from one of the 3 bottom folders to a page also in one of the 3 bottom folders, then we have (if we are on the timex.html page and want to get to the bulova.html page) an  
`href=../FANCY`  
Is this the right line of reasoning?

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**Author:** ![senocular](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/senocular/32/7217_2.png) [@senocular](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/senocular)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 2:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-links-between-folders/645338/2 "2020-12-15T14:21:56Z")

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I don’t think I quite get what the bottom folders are, but you’re right with the timex to bulova example. `../` let’s you navigate up from the current folder to it’s parent folder. Then from there you can get to other sibling folders (e.g. FANCY) by name.

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**Author:** ![John\_Stern](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/john_stern/32/12050_2.png) [@John\_Stern](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/John_Stern)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 6:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-links-between-folders/645338/3 "2020-12-15T18:06:11Z")

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Thanks! I admit to having a lot of difficulty with this concept but I think I see it now. So the idea then is that for the 3 lower folders we have to go up a level in order to then specify one of those folders in our href. You can’t just specify a folder directly without going up a level first and yet that is the way I first thought the solution to the problem lay - just specify the folder. But I am good now - thanks for your insight.

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**Author:** ![kirupa](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/kirupa/32/11616_2.png) [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2020, 7:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-links-between-folders/645338/4 "2020-12-16T19:43:50Z")

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This is a tricky subject (like many things with web development haha). I wrote an article on this that may help clarify some details further @John_Stern: [https://www.kirupa.com/html5/all\_about\_file\_paths.htm](https://www.kirupa.com/html5/all_about_file_paths.htm)

🙂

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**Author:** ![John\_Stern](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/john_stern/32/12050_2.png) [@John\_Stern](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/John_Stern)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2020, 5:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-links-between-folders/645338/5 "2020-12-17T17:45:33Z")

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Excellent article! That makes things very clear especially with the graphics. Thanks!