title: Basic HTML - does relative path to a sub-folder (using the directory name) work on a desktop?
body: <p>I am doing some basic HTML exercises on a Mac OS 10.6.6.</p>
  
  <p>Say I am here:</p>
  
  <p>rootfolder/index.html</p>
  
  <p>and I want to go here:</p>
  
  <p>rootfolder/subfolder/index.html</p>
  
  <p>I understand I can use the relative path to make a link:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;a href="subfolder/index.html"&gt;link to subfolder&lt;/a&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>^ this works for me in my browser.</p>
  
  <p>And if I wanted to shorten the href, I could just do this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;a href="subfolder/"&gt;link to subfolder&lt;/a&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When I click the short version in my browser, the link takes me to the folder on my desktop (not to the page in my browser)</p>
  
  <p>I'm wondering, do the files need to be in a web host environment for
  the short version to work in a browser?</p>