No closing tag. Index Definition: Base URL Description: Sets the base URL for the document. It must be placed in the HEAD of the document before any reference to an external source. Example: base href="/my_directory/index.html

An HTML tag enclosed in the Head, for specifying a document's virtual URL.» Back to top of screen

Yes v3 up IE3+ document base URL

Quoted from HTML specification 2.0, a work in progress: The BASE element allows the URL of the document itself to be recorded in situations in which the document may be read out of context. URLs within the document may be in a 'partial' form relative to this base address. Where the base address is not specified, the browser uses the URL it used to access the document to resolve any relative URLs. The one attribute for BASE is HREF, which identifies the URL. Say that the URL of a home page is http://www.myhome/default.htm. All relative links on this page are resolved using this URL-for example, a browser will look for the graphic specified in IMG SRC="images/mygraphic.gif" at http://www.myhome/default.htm/images/mygraphic.gif. If you add a base element to the home page that gives http://www.myhome/default.htm/ as its attribute, you can move the home page and the relative links will continue to be resolved using that base URL.

Defines a base URL for all the links in a page 3.0 3.0 STF