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HTML element: base

The <base> uses one or both of the following attributes for the noted purpose:

Attribute	Purpose	Misc
`href`	Specify the document's base URL, used when parsing URLs (for example in `<a href="…" …` or `<img src="…">`).	The value can be accessed in JavaScript with `Node.baseURI`.
`target`	The default navigable, used for following hyperlinks

There can (should) be at most one <base> element in a document.

Open Graph tags are not influenced by the <base> element; they should always have a full URL.

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In the following example, the first link points to https://server.xyz/path/to/root/dir/sub/abc.html and the second one to https://server.xyz/top/abc.html.

This is because the first link does not start with a slash, but the second one does.

<base href="https://server.xyz/path/to/root/dir/">

<a href="sub/abc.html">relative link</a>

<a href="/top/abc.html">absolute link</a>

HTML element: base

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