{"id":1122,"date":"2021-08-04T02:21:27","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T02:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mdesignsmarketing.com\/operations_manual\/?p=1122"},"modified":"2021-08-04T02:21:27","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T02:21:27","slug":"relative-vs-absolute-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdesignsmarketing.com\/operations_manual\/2021\/08\/04\/relative-vs-absolute-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Relative Vs. Absolute Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Absolute Links<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When a user searches the internet for a specific website, they will often use an absolute link. An absolute link is a link that uses an http request in order to instantly search through the world wide web for a specific (or absolute) address or URL. Absolute links can be used from any webpage across the internet, rather than just stay relative to a specific page.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Example of Absolute Links&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/website\/blog<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Relative Links<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most websites use navigation bars at the top, side, or maybe even bottom of their webpages, as well as other buttons on said website. It is not uncommon that some of these buttons are what is called a relative link. Relative links are links that do not make an http request, and therefore do not possess the power to search the world wide web, but rather link to things in nearby directories.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Example of Relative Links\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&lt;a href=&#8221;blog.html&#8221;&gt;Go to Blog Page!&lt;\/a&gt;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absolute Links When a user searches the internet for a specific website, they will often use an absolute link. An absolute link is a link that uses an http request in order to instantly search through the world wide web for a specific (or absolute) address or URL. Absolute links can be used from any webpage across the internet, rather than just stay relative to a specific page. Example of Absolute Links&#8230; https:\/\/website\/blog Relative Links Most websites use navigation bars at the top, side, or maybe even bottom of their webpages, as well as other buttons on said website. It is not uncommon that some of these buttons are what is called a relative link. Relative links are links that do not make an http request, and therefore do not possess the power to search the world wide web, but rather link to things in nearby directories. Example of Relative Links\u2026 &lt;a href=&#8221;blog.html&#8221;&gt;Go to Blog Page!&lt;\/a&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdesignsmarketing.com\/operations_manual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdesignsmarketing.com\/operations_manual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdesignsmarketing.com\/operations_manual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdesignsmarketing.com\/operations_manual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdesignsmarketing.com\/operations_manual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mdesignsmarketing.com\/operations_manual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1123,"href":"https:\/\/mdesignsmarketing.com\/operations_manual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions\/1123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdesignsmarketing.com\/operations_manual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdesignsmarketing.com\/operations_manual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdesignsmarketing.com\/operations_manual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}