HTML Element: <base>
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The HTML <base>
element specifies the base URL for all
relative URLs in a document. There can be at most one <base>
element in any specific document (and it should be inside the relevant <head> element).
The attributes
it can take (other than HTML global
attributes and HTML
event attributes) include:
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Attribute
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Description
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More
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href
|
URL of page the link
goes to
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Here
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target
|
Specifies where / how
to open the linked document (or where to submit the form)
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Here
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To
create or access such an element in JavaScript
see here. The
corresponding HTML DOM
object supports standard
DOM properties and methods, and additional properties with the same name and
meaning as the attributes of the underlying HTML element referred to above. It also
typically supports the hash, host, hostname,
origin, password, pathname,
port, protocol, search
and username variants of the href attribute, see here for more
details. The default style applicable to this element is shown here.
EXAMPLE:
HTML USED IN THIS EXAMPLE:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html> <!-- Copyright (c) Nematrian Limited 2018 -->
<head id="headelement">
<base href="Pictures/">
</head>
<body>
Created using HTML:<br>
Image is in Pictures directory but src attribute of image is just Shape1.jpg<br><br>
<img src="Shape1.jpg">
</body>
</html>
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