Link to index page of website

anchor, href, html, hyperlink

Solution

You can just do this:

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

Any `href` preceded by a slash is relative the root directory.

It should be noted that when viewing a webpage from a local hard drive in a browser, this will cause the link not to function.

Problem

Is there a way to link to the index page of a website without specifying the name of the index page or the full website URL? I have this: ``` <a href="index.htm">Home</a> ``` But when I click the link, my address bar shows: ``` mydomain.com/index.html ``` I would like it to show: ``` mydomain.com ``` Can I do that without putting the full URL (`mydomain.com`) in the `href`? If so, how? For future viewers, I also found this question helpful.

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