Absolute, means “not dependent on anything else” hence, an absolute URL points directly to a file. Hence, an absolute URL specifies the exact location of a file or folder on the internet. Further it is unique and hence, if two URLs are identical, then both point to the same file. It is used to uniquely identify a file on the Internet and is given in the address bar of browser. It must include the protocol (such as http://) at the beginning of the link. For example:
http://www.vskills.in/images/howitworks.jpg
specifies an image file howitworks.jpg located in the images directory, under www.vskills.in domain name. Further illustrated with the image
![Absolute URL](https://www.vskills.in/lms/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Absolute-URL.png)
It can be quite long and to use it within the web pages of a web site becomes too tiresome to manage and hence a shorthand form called relative URL is used.