HTML Tag: base

Base. Defines the base location for links on a page.

Relative links within a document (such as <a href="someplace.html"... or <img src="someimage.jpg"...) will become relative to the URI specified in the base tag.

The base tag must go inside the head element.

Required Attributes

  • href is mandatory as it will specify the location on the base URI.

Optional Attributes

  • None.

Example

<head>
	<title>New HTML</title>
	<base href="http://www.voxquo.com/directory/" />
</head>

Changes in HTML5

  • None.

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