Base Tags.......

[jonese]

so why would you do this? i thought the browsers just figured it out automatically?

does this serve any purpose?

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Eric Jones - WR Administrator
http://www.sitepoint.com
eric@sitepoint.com
ICQ 1215804 (mention WR)

[jonese]

What are base tags? i saw them on Sitepoint and can't figure them out...

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Eric Jones - WR Administrator
http://www.sitepoint.com
eric@sitepoint.com
ICQ 1215804 (mention WR)

[temis]

base URL for all relative URLs in the document

<base href=".." target="..">

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[temis]

well, I use it on our intranet site when I have two different servers and I need to go back and forth between them. Then your URLs are http://172.22.22.2/whatever and I use <base> so I dont have to write out the http://172.22.22.2 every time.

[Plebius]

They probably help stupid browsers and primitive robots. Plus, if all the links on a page point to another domain, say yahoo.com you can just use
<base href="http://www.yahoo.com/"> in the base tag and then in your links just use the relative path to save typing and space.

[from.mars]

The best use is <base target="_self"> or <base target="_new"> etc. It tells what frame, or if a new window the link should be opened in.