Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 01/14/07 08:22

Scripsit dfloss:

> For local html files, this works well.

For what? We can only see a poor solution, not the problem it was supposed
to solve.

> Unfortunately, it also breaks
> internal anchor links.

Of course it does.

> <base href="file:///C:/some_folder/" />

By definition, it sets the base URL of _all_ relative URLs in all
attributes.

> <a href="#SOME_ID_REFERENCE">blah</a> <-- doesn't work -->

By definition, it works the way it has been defined to work.

> Is it possible to make internal links ignore the <base href...>
> setting?

No, except by making them use absolute URLs (which isn't a good idea).

--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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