Where does jquery's getscript() function look when called in an external file?

Question

If i have a file system like:

project -> public -> js -> myfile.js

If i call getScript() in myfile.js where does it look at first? Is this generally true for other things?

For example if I call getScript("myotherfile.js") and myotherfile.js is in the js folder would that be sufficient to access myotherfile.js?

Does the getscript call from my html document or myfile.js?

Cerlin · Accepted Answer · 2015-01-05 04:46:58Z

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the path will be taken from the url which is appearing in the browser.

ie)

if the site url is example.com/test1/test2/ and the call is made from this page and if you are mentioning / infront of the js file url then the end result will be like example.com/myotherfile.js. if you are not putting any slash then it will refer like example.com/test1/test2/myotherfile.js.

NOTE: i am not sure if i got your question right.

for more info please read on absolute paths and relative paths

LINK for reference

answered Jan 5, 2015 at 4:46

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Christian Over a year ago

Agreed. It has nothing to do with the filesystem structure; it's all relative to the URL structure.

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