---
title: relativeString
framework: foundation
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: foundation/url/relativestring
---

# relativeString

The relative portion of a URL.

## Declaration

```swift
var relativeString: String { get }
```

## Discussion

Discussion If baseURL is nil, or if the URL is itself absolute, this is the same as absoluteString.

## See Also

### Accessing URL representations

- [baseURL](foundation/url/baseurl.md)
- [absoluteString](foundation/url/absolutestring.md)
- [absoluteURL](foundation/url/absoluteurl.md)
- [relativePath](foundation/url/relativepath.md)
- [standardized](foundation/url/standardized.md)
- [standardizedFileURL](foundation/url/standardizedfileurl.md)