title: url_to
---
summary: Generates a URL relative to another path.
---
type: method
---
signature: path, alt=None, absolute=None, external=None
---
body:

Calculates the URL from the current source object to the given other source
object.  Alternatively a path can also be provided instead of a source object.
If the path starts with a leading bang (``!``) then no resolving is performed.
If no `alt` is provided the `alt` of the page is used.

This is what the `|url` filter uses internally to generate URLs.

In addition to that `absolute` can enforce the URL to be absolute instead of
relative to the current page and `external` can be used to also add the
domain part to the URL (if configured).  The default behavior is to use the
configured URL style (which is `relative`) unless absolute or external were
explicitly provided.  For more information read about this in the
[Project Configuration :ref](../../../../project/file/#project).

## Example

```html+jinja
{% set downloads = site.get('/downloads') %}
Path from downloads to here: {{ downloads.url_to(this) }}
```