Help with base tag

[awright418]

I'm having trouble using the base tag. Here is what I'm doing:

<base href="http://www.mydomain.com/somefolder/" />

then I'm trying to link to stuff with:

<a href="/link" />link</a>

What happens is that the above gets turned into 'http://www.mydomain.com/link' which is incorrect instead of 'http://www.mydomain.com/somefolder/link' which is what I want.

I can fix it by changing the link to either:

<a href="./link" />link</a>

or

<a href="link" />link</a>

So... What's going on here? This problem is not browser specific. Everything I can Google about the base tag seems to say you are supposed to start links with a slash / if you are using a base tag.

Removing the trailing slash from the base href does not affect the problem:

<base href="http://www.mydomain.com/somefolder" />

It actually causes more problems! What am I doing wrong here??

[logic_earth]

A forward slash "/" at the beginning of a path starts it at the root regardless of the current path or base location.