Working with Links - What Is the Difference Between Slashes, a Single Dot, and Double Dot in Path Syntax?

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Tell us what’s happening:

In the question

“Which option is an absolute path?
/public/styles.css
./script.js
../src/nav.html
https://freecodecamp.org”

I chose option 4. I now learned that this is not an absolute path, because it does not point to a resource (fair enough!)

What completely confuses me though is that in just the previous lecture I was taught that absolute paths contain the protocol and start at the root directory, which the “correct” quiz option here does not do.

How does this make sense?

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Working with Links - What Is the Difference Between Slashes, a Single Dot, and Double Dot in Path Syntax?

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/ is the root directory, so it actually starts there

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