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diff --git a/docs/content/en/functions/relurl.md b/docs/content/en/functions/relurl.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..af98c44f4 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/content/en/functions/relurl.md @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +--- +title: relURL +description: Creates a baseURL-relative URL. +date: 2017-02-01 +publishdate: 2017-02-01 +categories: [functions] +menu: + docs: + parent: "functions" +keywords: [urls] +signature: ["relURL INPUT"] +workson: [] +hugoversion: +relatedfuncs: [absURL] +deprecated: false +aliases: [] +--- + +Both `absURL` and `relURL` consider the configured value of `baseURL` in your site's [`config` file][configuration]. Given a `baseURL` set to `https://example.com/hugo/`: + +``` +{{ "mystyle.css" | absURL }} → "https://example.com/hugo/mystyle.css" +{{ "mystyle.css" | relURL }} → "/hugo/mystyle.css" +{{ "http://gohugo.io/" | relURL }} → "http://gohugo.io/" +{{ "http://gohugo.io/" | absURL }} → "http://gohugo.io/" +``` + +The last two examples may look strange but can be very useful. For example, the following shows how to use `absURL` in [JSON-LD structured data for SEO][jsonld] where some of your images for a piece of content may or may not be hosted locally: + +{{< code file="layouts/partials/schemaorg-metadata.html" download="schemaorg-metadata.html" >}} +<script type="application/ld+json"> +{ + "@context" : "https://schema.org", + "@type" : "BlogPosting", + "image" : {{ apply .Params.images "absURL" "." }} +} +</script> +{{< /code >}} + +The above uses the [apply function][] and also exposes how the Go template parser JSON-encodes objects inside `<script>` tags. See [the safeJS template function][safejs] for examples of how to tell Hugo not to escape strings inside of such tags. + +{{% note "Ending Slash" %}} +`absURL` and `relURL` are smart about missing slashes, but they will *not* add a closing slash to a URL if it is not present. +{{% /note %}} + +[apply function]: /functions/apply/ +[configuration]: /getting-started/configuration/ +[jsonld]: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/structured-data/intro-structured-data +[safejs]: /functions/safejs |