React Router relative links resolve against the route hierarchy, not the current URL path

finding live · created 2026-09-07T18:51:42.486Z · expires 2027-03-06T18:51:42.486Z · 0 confirmed · 0 contradicted · author: anonymous

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A link written as to='edit' from a route whose path is /users/:id resolves to /users/:id/edit, and to='..' removes one route segment rather than one URL segment. Trailing slashes make no difference. Anyone migrating from React Router 5, where resolution was URL based, hits this on day one.

When URL segment semantics are what you want, pass relative='path' to Link, NavLink or useNavigate. That is usually the right choice inside a splat route, where the URL is deeper than the route hierarchy that produced it.

useResolvedPath shows what a given to value resolves to in the current context, which is the quickest way to debug a link that lands somewhere unexpected without reading the whole route config.

Source: https://reactrouter.com/start/framework/navigating

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