diff --git a/src/context/directory/handlers/branding.ts b/src/context/directory/handlers/branding.ts
index 35e4148d7..aca4408f9 100644
--- a/src/context/directory/handlers/branding.ts
+++ b/src/context/directory/handlers/branding.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import path from 'path';
 import fs from 'fs-extra';
 import { constants, loadFileAndReplaceKeywords } from '../../../tools';
-import { dumpJSON, existsMustBeDir, getFiles, isFile, loadJSON } from '../../../utils';
+import { dumpJSON, existsMustBeDir, getFiles, isFile, loadJSON, nomalizedYAMLPath } from '../../../utils';
 import { DirectoryHandler } from '.';
 import DirectoryContext from '..';
 import { Asset, ParsedAsset } from '../../../types';
@@ -38,8 +38,10 @@ function parse(context: DirectoryContext): ParsedBranding {
       mappings: context.mappings,
       disableKeywordReplacement: context.disableKeywordReplacement,
     });
+
+    const normalizedPathArray = nomalizedYAMLPath(definition.body);
     definition.body = loadFileAndReplaceKeywords(
-      path.join(brandingTemplatesFolder, definition.body),
+      path.join(brandingTemplatesFolder, ...normalizedPathArray),
       {
         mappings: context.mappings,
         disableKeywordReplacement: context.disableKeywordReplacement,
@@ -94,7 +96,7 @@ const dumpBrandingTemplates = ({ filePath, assets }: DirectoryContext): void =>
     }
 
     // save the location as relative file.
-    templateDefinition.body = `.${path.sep}${templateDefinition.template}.html`;
+    templateDefinition.body = `./${templateDefinition.template}.html`;
     dumpJSON(
       path.join(brandingTemplatesFolder, `${templateDefinition.template}.json`),
       templateDefinition
diff --git a/src/context/yaml/handlers/branding.ts b/src/context/yaml/handlers/branding.ts
index 109a86c43..a1f6e74a1 100644
--- a/src/context/yaml/handlers/branding.ts
+++ b/src/context/yaml/handlers/branding.ts
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import { YAMLHandler } from '.';
 import YAMLContext from '..';
 import { Asset, ParsedAsset } from '../../../types';
 import log from '../../../logger';
+import { nomalizedYAMLPath } from '../../../utils';
 
 type BrandingTemplate = {
   template: string;
@@ -32,12 +33,8 @@ async function parse(context: YAMLContext): Promise<ParsedBranding> {
 
   const parsedTemplates: BrandingTemplate[] = templates.map(
     (templateDefinition: BrandingTemplate): BrandingTemplate => {
-      const brandingTemplatesFolder = path.join(
-        context.basePath,
-        constants.BRANDING_TEMPLATES_YAML_DIRECTORY
-      );
-      const file = `${templateDefinition.template}.html`;
-      const markupFile = path.join(brandingTemplatesFolder, file);
+      const normalizedPathArray = nomalizedYAMLPath(templateDefinition.body);
+      const markupFile = path.join(context.basePath, ...normalizedPathArray);
       return {
         template: templateDefinition.template,
         body: loadFileAndReplaceKeywords(markupFile, {
diff --git a/src/utils.ts b/src/utils.ts
index 46e254242..97561159b 100644
--- a/src/utils.ts
+++ b/src/utils.ts
@@ -205,3 +205,29 @@ export function mapClientID2NameSorted(enabledClients: string[], knownClients: A
     ...(enabledClients || []).map((clientId) => convertClientIdToName(clientId, knownClients)),
   ].sort((a, b) => a.toLowerCase().localeCompare(b.toLowerCase()));
 }
+
+export function nomalizedYAMLPath(filePath: string): string[] {
+  // Trim any leading or trailing whitespace
+  filePath = filePath.trim();
+
+  // Handle empty path cases
+  if (filePath === '') {
+    return [];
+  }
+
+  // Normalize the path by replacing backslashes with forward slashes
+  const normalizedPath = filePath.replace(/\\/g, '/');
+
+  // Split the path using the forward slash as the separator
+  let pathSplit = normalizedPath.split('/');
+
+  // Remove empty components resulting from leading or redundant slashes
+  pathSplit = pathSplit.filter(component => component !== '');
+
+  // Remove the first '.' if it's the first component
+  if (pathSplit.length > 0 && pathSplit[0] === '.') {
+    pathSplit.shift();
+  }
+
+  return pathSplit;
+}
diff --git a/test/context/yaml/branding.test.js b/test/context/yaml/branding.test.js
index 3e0e793f9..62b438d09 100644
--- a/test/context/yaml/branding.test.js
+++ b/test/context/yaml/branding.test.js
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@ describe('#YAML context branding templates', () => {
 
     const config = { AUTH0_INPUT_FILE: yamlFile, AUTH0_KEYWORD_REPLACE_MAPPINGS: { foo: 'bar' } };
     const context = new Context(config, mockMgmtClient());
-    context.basePath = baseDir;
     await context.loadAssetsFromLocal();
     expect(context.assets.branding).to.deep.equal({
       colors: {