Relative paths break in HTML when using mod_rewrite in .htaccess

I am new to .htaccess

and mod_rewrite.

I am using the following rewrite rules:

RewriteRule ^wants/([0-9]+)$ /wantlist.php?wantid=$1
RewriteRule ^dashboard$ /dashboard.php

      

        
        
        
      

    

I can successfully redirect both cases.

But to do this, I had to change CSS, JS and other paths to absolute paths, without which CSS and JS would not load.

I used

<script type="javascript" src="js/javascript.js"></script>

      

        
        
        
      

    

which after the rewrite rule didn't work, and after I changed it to

<script type="javascript" src="http://example.com/js/javascript.js"></script>

      

        
        
        
      

    

I got this to work.

The same happens with any other URL on the site.

Is there a way to get around this since I use relative paths pretty much everywhere on a site I am developing?