Path to link css file to html page

Question

I would like to ask a little help to link my stylesheet file to my html pages...

public
 index.html
>assets
 >css
  file.css
 >js
 >img
>pages
 page1.html
 page2.html

I tried to link my stylesheet like this:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/assets/css/basic.css">

but it doesn't work.

Moreover, i can't link also the index.html in page1.html. I put this tag in page1.html and it doesn't work:

<a class="nav-link" href="index.html">Home</a>

Answer 1

Ok I've done. My problem was that file.css is located in the folder one level up from the current folder so that I have to describe the path starting with ../