Answer / raghavendra utsai

A relative path describes the location of a file in
relation to another file on the same current Directory .
The starting point is the location of the document with the
path. The path may appear as:

images/image123.gif

Looking at this path you can tell that the document with
this path is inside of a Current folder which also has a
subfolder named images. And, inside of the images
subfolder, there is a file named image123.gif.

We can Say like, "Stay inside the folder you are already
in and find a subfolder named images. Now look inside of
that subfolder and find a file named image1.gif."

Also known as the full path, the absolute path is a path
that contains the root directory and all other sub
directories required to get into the directory you're
currently in or wish to get to. Below is a basic example of
a generic path and an absolute path.

Absolute path:

/home/user/My Picture/images/image123.gif

As can be seen from the above example, the absolute path
contains the full path instead of a few directories
contained within the absolute path. Below are some
additional examples.

Example 2
Absolute path:
C:\My Picture\images\image123.gif

Answer / suitable

relative path do not begin with /. its specifies location
relative to your current working directory and it can be
used as a shorter way to specify a file name.

absolute path always begin with a / (slash). It is a
complete "road map" file location.

Answer / raveendra reddy

absolute path contains the exact path if anyone wants
to search for the particular file.this path contains all
the root folder information.so, by seeing the absolute path
anyone can easily determine a particular file in our system.
relative path also contains the root folder
information,but we can't determine any file with that
information.if anyone who are there in the root folder or
who knows the root folder only can be determine particular
file.
I think this information is enough to understand.bye

Answer / sudipta

absolute means the path is absolutely present that means the required file's original path, from whenever u r present on ur system.
e.g.
i am finding for a file 'mypic.jpeg' which is present at d:/>my drive/picture & i'm present in the c:/>my document folder,then from that position the absoluute path is
'd:/>my drive/picture/mypic.jpeg'.

But in case of relative path,it indicate the path which is relative to that file(which one u want i.e 'mypic.jpeg') where it is present from that current location ,that may be the same folder,& it casually use when we hosted the file from server,locate the file with in the current folder & that is starting with '\' in windows os..

Answer / masanam

I agree with below example:

Absolute path:
/home/user/My Picture/images/image123.gif

Obsolute path:

images/image123.gif

Answer / ramakant

Absolute path contains parent folders and directory information.

Answer / chandrahas

absolute path: it is complete address with domain name,directory name and file name.
ex: http://www.abc.com/images/img1.jpg

relative path: it is just directory name and file name.
ex: images/imag1.jpg

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