<base href="file:///..."/> question

dfloss · Jan 14, 2007

For local html files, this works well. Unfortunately, it also breaks
internal anchor links.

Here is an example:
<head>
<base href="file:///C:/some_folder/" />
</head>

<a href="#SOME_ID_REFERENCE">blah</a> <-- doesn't work -->

Is it possible to make internal links ignore the <base href...> setting?

Jukka K. Korpela · Jan 14, 2007

Scripsit dfloss:

For local html files, this works well.

For what? We can only see a poor solution, not the problem it was supposed
to solve.

Unfortunately, it also breaks
internal anchor links.

Of course it does.

<base href="file:///C:/some_folder/" />

By definition, it sets the base URL of _all_ relative URLs in all
attributes.

<a href="#SOME_ID_REFERENCE">blah</a> <-- doesn't work -->

By definition, it works the way it has been defined to work.

Is it possible to make internal links ignore the <base href...>
setting?

No, except by making them use absolute URLs (which isn't a good idea).

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Jukka K. Korpela

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