Not Sourcing Full Domain Name (http://...) in Source Code?

CMS & WordPress
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I am using the following code for sourcing to my CSS files and it works great:
<?php echo get_template_directory_uri(); ?>

However, in the source code it’s showing the full domain, “http://www.website.com/wordpress-content/themes/…”
Is there any way to remove the URL from the very beginning and to just output “/wordpress-content/themes/…” instead?

I just think it looks cleaner doing it this way. Seems to do the same thing, with a few less characters. Is there any reason not to do this?
Thanks,

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If you just want the relative path (from site root) to your theme directory then you can do this:


<?php echo parse_url( get_template_directory_uri(), PHP_URL_PATH ); ?>