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Description

Specifies the base URL for resources in the web page.  It must be used within the HEAD tag.

For example, if the base URL is set to 'http://www.performancemodifiedcars.co.uk/' and a link pointed to 'top_modified_feature_cars.htm', the browser would navigate to http://www.performancemodifiedcars.co.uk/top_modified_feature_cars.htm, whatever site the web page was part of.

Attributes

HREF

The URL where the resources are located.

TARGET

Specifies the target frame where links will open to.  As well as name of frames, there are predefined values that can be used to open the page in a specific location:

Value Description
_blank Open in new window
_parent Open in parent frame
_self Open in same frame
_top Open in current window, regardless of frames used

This can be overridden by using the TARGET attribute within the A tag.

Related Tags

The BASE tag is used within the HEAD tag.

Example

Page hosted on http://www.martin2k.co.uk:

Code

<head>
<base href="http://www.performancemodifiedcars.co.uk/" target="_blank">
</head>

<body>
<p><a href="top_modified_feature_cars.htm">Feature Cars</a></p>
<p><img src="feature_cars/toyota_supra/1.jpg"></p>
</body>

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