Stuck using absolute urls

  • Greetings,

    In my sidebar I use a few small images for the meta links. Why does it seem I am stuck having to use absolute link addresses for the image itself?

    For example – this works:
    <img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/images/xfn-btn.gif" alt="XFN Friendly" height="15" width="80" />

    but this relative address does not work:
    <img src="/images/xfn-btn.gif" alt="XFN Friendly" height="15" width="80" />

    Like most themes out there all my theme files are located in the root folder for the theme and all my images are in the “images” folder within it.

    I know how relative links work and all about using ../etc etc or ./etc etc when necessary but again, nothing I try works unless I use an absolute/full address.

    Just curious, thanks.

    PS: I am using the date and name permalink structure if that makes any difference.

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  • You do understand that a url of /images/xfn-btn.gif would start at the root directory of your web site; the first slash / tells a browser “begin looking for images/xfn-btn.gif at the top of the current address.”

    So if xfn-btn.gif was located here:

    my.site/blog/wp-content/themes/my-theme/images/xfn-btn.gif

    Your ‘relative’ src path would fail because the browser is looking here:

    my.site/images/xfn-btn.gif

    Thread Starter Mark Kehn

    (@mak)

    Yeah you got me there rofl. I forgot about that. In my mind I was thinking everything worked from the theme folder where the files were located.

    Thanks for the friendly reminder.

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