BASE base context document HTML 4.01 Strict

BASE

Purpose

document base URI

Description

This element identifies the base (or "correct") location of the document. This is useful if someone copies the document from its original location. The browser will use value of the href attribute to resolve relative URL's. You should have at most one BASE element in the your document. It is useful for mirror sites, or as a record of the "original" site for a page. For example:

<HEAD>
 <TITLE>Hello World Demonstration Document</TITLE>
 <BASE Href="http://www.december.com/html/">
</HEAD>

Start tag

Required <BASE>

Attributes

Name	Type	Default	Comment
href	CDATA	#REQUIRED	Uniform Resource Identifier as per RFC2396; a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is a URI; URI that acts as base URI

Content

EMPTY

End tag

Forbidden

Referenced in

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