Names of files

Question

I put my HTML website on a USB chip so i could use it on my other laptop. it wouldnt let me go to diffrent links that i put in there. If i wanted to click on a login link (that leads to a diffrent note file) it wouldnt work on my other laptop, but it works fine on my original laptop i created it all on. Is there a way to fix this?

Answer 1

as I thought: absolute links.
they always start with a protocol (http, https, ftp, file...)
take a look at relative links, change them and it should work fine on your other laptop.

relative links:
let's say you have a index.html in your main directory. your stylesheets are in a subdirectory called css, your images are in img and there's another file next to the index file called contact.html

add the stylesheets like: css/mystyle.css
Link to the other file: contact.html (no path needed as they're in the same directory)
path to background image in stylesheet: ../img/bg.jpg

the path always starts at the file calling another file. so from your stylesheet you'll have to go one directory back ( ../ ) and then into the other directory.
.. moves to the patent directory of the current directory.

Answer 2

please show your code. maybe you used absolute links instead of relative links. but I'm just guessing...