How do I create root-relative links in a static site?

Question

When building a static HTML site, you can set the base url like so . Supposedly when you insert, say, an image, y

Answer 1

Lose the leading / to make it a relative URL:

There are 3 types of URL:

• Fully Qualified, e.g. http://example.org/path/to/file

• Absolute, e.g. /path/to/file (assuming the link comes from any page in the example.org domain)

• Relative, e.g. path/to/file (assuming the link comes from the root (/) "folder" or there is a base URL http://example.org/) or to/file (assuming the link comes from within the 'path' "folder" or the base URL is http://example.org/path/)