Absolute vs relative URLs

Question

I would like to know the differences between these two types of URLs: relative URLs (for pictures, CSS files, JS files, etc.) and absolute URLs.

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Answer 1

If it is for use within your website, it's better practice to use relative URL, like this if you need to move the website to another domain name or just debug locally, you can.

Take a look at what's stackoverflow is doing (ctrl+U in firefox):

 // Link to an internal element

In some cases they use absolute urls :

... but this is only it's a best practice to improve speed. In your case, it doesn't look like you're doing anything like that so I wouldn't worry about it.