HTML base Tag

The HTML base tag is used to specify a base URI, or URL, for relative links. For example, you can set the base URL once at the top of your page, then all subsequent relative links will use that URL as a starting point.

Example


<base href="http://www.quackit.com/javascript/" target="_blank"/>
<p>Learn about <a href="javascript_arrays.cfm">JavaScript Arrays</a></p>

The link above will actually resolve to http://www.quackit.com/javascript/javascript_arrays.cfm regardless of the URL of the current page. This is because the base URL (http://www.quackit.com/javascript/) is prepended to the (relative) URL indicated in the link (javascript_arrays.cfm)

Attributes:

Attributes specific to this tag:
Attribute	Description
href	Specifies the URI/URL to use.
Other Attributes:
Attribute	Description
target	Target frame/window

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