File path is the address that tells the browser where images, CSS, and JS files live.
- Absolute path — full URL:
https://example.com/image.jpg - Root-relative path — starting from the website root:
/images/photo.jpg - Relative path — starting from the current file's location:
images/photo.jpg,../style.css
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<img src="https://example.com/photo.jpg" alt="From another website">
<img src="/images/logo.png" alt="Logo from root images folder">
<img src="images/profile.jpg" alt="Profile from current folder">You should see
Depending on the path type, the browser will look for the image source accordingly.