Posted by Mark Simon on 12/18/05 08:44

Rob McAninch wrote:
> Mark Simon>:
>
>> The base tag technically has a required href attribute, which should
>> be an absolute reference. I have no use for this href attribute, and
>> it tends to cause the relative links on the page not to work properly.
>> However, without it, the page won't validate properly.
>
>
> Indeed, could you give a URL?
>
> My site in the signature would have <base href="http://rock13.com/">
> with all the relative URLs starting like "webhelp/perl/".
>
> It sounds like your base href was formatted incorrectly.
>
Understood. However, if your relative URLs were all in the same
directory as the current page, and you were to move your pages to
another host or another directory, you would have to modify your <base
/> tag, which would be a shame, and make the whole page less relative.

Thanks,

Mark

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