A relative address is where you don't put the full URL, just the file name. The relative address of this page would be: hyperlink.htm If I used this in my Flash example above, it would open this page, but only if the Flash movie is in the same location as the page you are trying to open. If you don't specify the full URL, just the name of the HTML page, the browser will look for it in the same directory (folder) and at the same address as the one you are currently viewing. You use relative links to pages on your own site. There are two reasons for this. One: When you test you work on your hard drive a relative link will find the relative file on your hard drive. If you place the full URL the browser will look on-line for the page, which gets confusing, and may give you incorrect results. Two: You can move your entire site from one server to another or to an Intranet or local hard drive or even to a CD or Floppy disk and the site will still work. If you don't do this you would have to up-date every link and that's no fun! Relative Links: Folders For a relative link to work you do not have to have all your files in the same folder. The location of this page is: http://www.webwasp.co.uk/ - The root directory for the site. tutorials/ - The folder for all the tutorials on this site. a15-hyperlink/ - The folder for all the files for this tutorial. hyperlink.htm - This HTML file that is this web page. If I want to link from the Home page to this page, the relative link would be: tutorials/a15-hyperlink/hyperlink.htm The other way around - a link from this page to the home page would be: ../../index.htm ../ makes the page go up hill or to the folder one level up. The home page is up two levels from this point. Remember the location of this file is: tutorials/a15-hyperlink Thus the home page is up two levels. After this there is no where to go as you will be in the root directory and that is the end of a relative links possibility.