Have you considered using absolute links from the top level of your site?

On Friday, January 30, 2026 at 11:24:46 AM UTC-8 Neil Faiman wrote:

> Is there any way to do a “Find Differences” that disregards certain 
> predictable and uninteresting differences?
>
> My specific example is a folder comparison of two folders that contain 
> “the same” HTML files, but that are at different depths in the web site 
> folder hierarchy. Thus, all intra-site links in the files will contain 
> additional “../”s in the deeper folder. For example, in the shallower 
> directory:
>
> <link rel="Stylesheet" href="../zba-5.9.css" type="text/css">
>
> <script src="../collapsible_menu.js"></script>
>
> And in the deeper directory:
>
> <link rel="Stylesheet" href="../../zba-5.9.css" type="text/css">
>
> <script src="../../collapsible_menu.js"></script>
>
> If I there were a Find Difference option, “disregard all occurrences of a 
> specified grep pattern when comparing the files”, then I could just ignore 
> all occurrences of “../” in href elements.
>
> Thanks,
> Neil Faiman
>

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