wp-includes/script-loader.php:3157Makes URLs relative to the WordPress installation.
$cssstring$stylesheet_urlstringstringfunction _wp_normalize_relative_css_links( $css, $stylesheet_url ) { return preg_replace_callback( '#(url\s*\(\s*[\'"]?\s*)([^\'"\)]+)#', static function ( $matches ) use ( $stylesheet_url ) { list( , $prefix, $url ) = $matches; // Short-circuit if the URL does not require normalization. if ( str_starts_with( $url, 'http:' ) || str_starts_with( $url, 'https:' ) || str_starts_with( $url, '/' ) || str_starts_with( $url, '#' ) || str_starts_with( $url, 'data:' ) ) { return $matches[0]; } // Build the absolute URL. $absolute_url = dirname( $stylesheet_url ) . '/' . $url; $absolute_url = str_replace( '/./', '/', $absolute_url ); // Convert to URL related to the site root. $url = wp_make_link_relative( $absolute_url ); return $prefix . $url; }, $css );}Introduced in 5.9.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
Signature, return type and hooks compared across 5 parsed releases.
src/wp-includes/script-loader.php, and regenerated for each WordPress release so it tracks the code rather than a snapshot of it.