Cannot remove .html in URL

[regexyl]

The current format of the .htaccess file requires all link references to remove .html. I.e. '../html/index.html' should be '../html/index'. Is there a way to remove the .html TLD without changing the references?

`RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /html/([^.]+).html [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /%1 [NC,L,R]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.html -f
RewriteRule ^ %{REQUEST_URI}.html [NC,L]`

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5730092/how-to-remove-html-from-url