Re: BASE HREF

by Christopher Higgs <c.higgs(at)landfood.unimelb.edu.au>

 Date:  Tue, 30 Nov 1999 11:56:58 +1100
 To:  MiklBike(at)aol.com
 Cc:  hwg-basics(at)hwg.org
 In-Reply-To:  aol
  todo: View Thread, Original
At 18:10 29/11/99 -0500, you wrote:
>I've a question about this tag, BASE HREF. First of all, I'm not sure what it
>does. The isp which hosts our site added it to the script.

Links within your web page can be absolute (eg 
href="http://www......../file.html") or relative (eg href="file.html").  If 
you specify a BASE HREF, then all relative addresses will insert that 
"base" in front of the specified address.


Chris Higgs <c.higgs(at)landfood.unimelb.edu.au>
Institute of Land and Food Resources
University of Melbourne http://www.landfood.unimelb.edu.au

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