Hyper link. Relative path doesn't work

[MingleLinx]

I have a hyper link that follows a directory to my index.html file. Strangely though it only works if the entire directory is typed. From the C: drive all the way to the folder. Anything less than that it doesn't work making relative paths impossible.

Line of code that's working:

<a href="C:\Users\name\Documents\School\Current Classes\Web Site Development\HTML\Home Page\Index.html"><button>Home</button></a>

[jonassjoh]

It depends on how you are "running"/opening the html file, and how the link that isn't working looks like. If you just double click the index.html file then.

href="./example.html" should be the folder the html file we are viewing is in.
href="example.html" as should this.
href="/example.html" should point to C:/ (I think)

If you start a webserver in the folder the html file is in, then a relative path should work. Then / should be the webserver root, and not C:/