GitHub pages and relative paths

Question

I have created a gh-pages branch for a project that I am working on at GitHub.

I use Sublime text to author the website locally and my problem is that w

Answer 1

Which browser are you using? Are you sure that this happens? Because it shouldn't. If you include a relative URL in a link, it will get resolved relative to the URL of the document that contains the link. In other words, when you include

in an HTML document at http://www.foo.com/bar/doc.html, the link to assets/css/common.css will get resolved by appending it to the prefix of the URL of the HTML document without the last part of the path (without doc.html), i.e. the link will resolve to http://www.foo.com/bar/assets/css/common.css, not to http://www.foo.com/assets/css/common.css as you claim.

For example, view the source of the Twitter Bootstrap webpage: http://twitter.github.io/bootstrap/. Notice the style links at the top, specified as . That link correctly resolves to http://twitter.github.io/bootstrap/assets/css/bootstrap.css, i.e. it does include the repo name.