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What does "./" (single period) means in html (e.g. <script src="./src/main.js"></script>) for file paths?

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"../" – two period (e.g., src="../picture.jpg") means go up one folder.

"folder/" – (e.g., src="myfolder/picture.jpg" means go down to myfolderfolder.

But I saw this single period "./src": <script src="./src/main.js"></script> on youtube. I was wondering what it means.

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    In HTML, ./ is used to indicate the current directory or folder.

    In <script src="./src/main.js"></script> the ./ before src indicates that the file main.js is located in the same directory as the HTML file is. It’s not necessary to put them before the file’s name.

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    Tldr: It’s the current working directory and you can omit it in most cases

    Lets say your folder structure looks like this:

    myproject
  src
    main.js
    whatever.js
  index.html

    Then it actually looks like this because of two hidden "files":

    myproject
  .
  ..
  src
    .
    ..
    main.js
    whatever.js
  index.html

    Where .. is a reference to the folder that is above the current working directory (if the working directory is src, then ../ references myproject) and . referencing the current working directory itself (If you’re in myproject and want to access index.html you could specify it as just index.html or ./index.html). In most cases, you don’t need to specify the . explicitly.

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