An absolute URL is a URL that includes the protocol and the hostname (and all the other parts of a URL, if needed). Every absolute URL will explicitly provide all the information that the web browser needs to find the particular document or file in question.
When to Use an Absolute URL
You will have to use an absolute URL when linking to a resource outside your website.
When linking to a resource within your website, you technically can use an absolute URL, but you should use a relative URL, which I describe in another lesson.
Well, this was a really short lesson. I more or less just wrote it as a separate article because it didn’t seem to fit logically in the other one.
