The HTML Base element
2019-09-20
The HTML <base>
element specifies attributes for all links in the document at once.
Let's take a look at this example:
<head>
<base target="_blank">
</head>
Now all links will open in a new tab by default.
Additionally, the href
attribute can be set within <base>
tag. This sets the base URL to be used throughout the document for relative URL addresses.
For example:
<head>
<base href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/base">
</head>
The following link:
<body>
...
<a target="_blank" href="#Usage_notes">Usage notes</a>
...
</body>
Will actually point to
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/base#Usage_notes
Note:
<base>
shouldn't have a closing tag. 🤷- There can be only one base element in a document.