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HTML HTML Basics Going Further with HTML Root-relative Paths

Alex Forseth
Alex Forseth
8,017 Points
Posted by Alex Forseth
Alex Forseth
8,017 Points

Initial Root Relative path exercise not working. (from video)

For some reason when I plug in
<li> <a href="/">Home</a></li>

I literally get transfered to a page that has a single "/" and not the home.

What gives?

1 Answer

Ari Misha
Ari Misha
19,323 Points
Ari Misha
Ari Misha
19,323 Points

Hiya there! The href attribute in HTML stands for Hyper Reference , which simply means a reference to another page or website. Now , href should always be in double quotes. And in your code above, you gave path of "/" to href, which pretty means the reference to landing page not to the "Home" ref. In order to link it to "Home" ref , your code should look like this (this would only work if you've Home page defined somewhere): 

<li> <a href="/Home">Home</a></li>

I hope this helped!

~ Ari