diff --git a/modules/angular2/src/core/compiler/style_url_resolver.ts b/modules/angular2/src/core/compiler/style_url_resolver.ts
index a95352392f..70b9fee499 100644
--- a/modules/angular2/src/core/compiler/style_url_resolver.ts
+++ b/modules/angular2/src/core/compiler/style_url_resolver.ts
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ export class StyleWithImports {
 }
 
 export function isStyleUrlResolvable(url: string): boolean {
-  if (isBlank(url) || url.length === 0) return false;
+  if (isBlank(url) || url.length === 0 || url[0] == '/') return false;
   var schemeMatch = RegExpWrapper.firstMatch(_urlWithSchemaRe, url);
   return isBlank(schemeMatch) || schemeMatch[1] == 'package';
 }
@@ -42,4 +42,4 @@ export function extractStyleUrls(resolver: UrlResolver, baseUrl: string, cssText
 var _cssImportRe = /@import\s+(?:url\()?\s*(?:(?:['"]([^'"]*))|([^;\)\s]*))[^;]*;?/g;
 // TODO: can't use /^[^:/?#.]+:/g due to clang-format bug:
 //       https://github.com/angular/angular/issues/4596
-var _urlWithSchemaRe = /^['"]?([a-zA-Z\-\+\.]+):/g;
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+var _urlWithSchemaRe = /^([a-zA-Z\-\+\.]+):/g;
diff --git a/modules/angular2/test/core/compiler/style_url_resolver_spec.ts b/modules/angular2/test/core/compiler/style_url_resolver_spec.ts
index edd7b4f562..ba0bba5d89 100644
--- a/modules/angular2/test/core/compiler/style_url_resolver_spec.ts
+++ b/modules/angular2/test/core/compiler/style_url_resolver_spec.ts
@@ -96,6 +96,11 @@ export function main() {
 
     it('should not resolve urls with other schema',
        () => { expect(isStyleUrlResolvable('http://otherurl')).toBe(false); });
+
+    it('should not resolve urls with absolute paths', () => {
+      expect(isStyleUrlResolvable('/otherurl')).toBe(false);
+      expect(isStyleUrlResolvable('//otherurl')).toBe(false);
+    });
   });
 }