How to reference URL relative to current page in a block

I have a custom block where I need to reference a URL relative to the current page (such as node/7/images or node/293/images) that will link to the “Images” view mode I made for the node. I am using a module so that a view mode is accessible via URL (which I have as node/#/images), but I am having trouble getting a working link to /images that would work on any given node.

I have tried to link it to /images and /#/images but have gotten a 404 each time, likely because it is going to example.com/images or example.com/#/images. I have also tried using the Token for current page URL which 404’d as well.

Is there a way, hopefully through the UI, in which I can reference the current node in a way that on any given node the link to the “Images” view mode will link to /node/[current node #]/images?

I have seen ways to implement it using custom modules or code, but I am not very experienced with putting custom code into Drupal and prefer to use the UI is possible.

update

I briefly had a fix, but then I broke it. I had got it working adding a link that referenced “images/” (without the quotations). While viewing the node, the custom block originally linked to example.com/node/#/images as intended.

However, I then configured the block to be hidden on */images (wasn’t necessary to link to the view while viewing it). After I did this, the link broke on the node page, instead now referencing to example.com/node/images, missing the node # in the URL. I have no idea how this got broken as I only worked through the UI

I tried deleting the block then adding it again with no effect

Using “#/images” will direct to /node/123#/images (adding the actual # into the URL) – while this gets the current node id into the URL it doesnt work with the presence of the # symbol

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