- From: Nir Dagan <nir@nirdagan.com>
- Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 13:26:26 -0500
- To: "Mathieu Pillard" <mpillard@club-internet.fr>, "Html Mailing List" <www-html@w3.org>
The value of the href attribute in the <base> tag should be an absolute URI. such as http://www.w3.org/mysite/ and not /mysite/ From http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/links.html <!ELEMENT BASE - O EMPTY -- document base URI --> <!ATTLIST BASE href %URI; #REQUIRED -- URI that acts as base URI -- > Start tag: required, End tag: forbidden Attribute definitions href = uri [CT] This attribute specifies an absolute URI that acts as the base URI for resolving relative URIs. Regards, Nir At 03:11 AM 12/19/99 +0100, Mathieu Pillard wrote: >i've a little problem with the <base> tag. >I wanted to set the base href to a directory called mysite. >So I put <BASE href="/mysite/"> in my document header. >But, when I lanched IE5, the browser didn't understood the <base> >correctly, it assumed that i wanted to put http:///green/ (I saw it >because i looked to the status bar while my mouse was over a link) >what's wrong ? does it only happens with IE5 ? How can I correct it, >please ? > >Mat >www.dioxine.com/king >icq 49445666 > >PS: please excuse my bad and ugly english - I'm french - > =================================== Nir Dagan Assistant Professor of Economics Brown University Providence, RI USA http://www.nirdagan.com mailto:nir@nirdagan.com tel:+1-401-863-2145
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