HTML base tag inside head of the page to add to url links of the page

Not more than one base tag to be used inside HEAD tag of the page.
Base URL is applied to relative URL ( or Links , Image SRC ) of the page.

<base href='https://www.plus2net.com/images/' target='_blank'>

Attributes

Attribute	Description
href	The URL to be userd , can be relative or absolure
target	_self : Default, loaded in same browser window _blank: Open in new window _parent: If curent one is a child window then link will open in Parent _top: Open in ancestor of present one ( if exist )

Example : Link with target=_blank ( open in new window )

<base href=../php_tutorial/ target=_blank>

<a href=site_map.php>Go to PHP Section</a>

Example : Linking image from image directory of root.

Our image logo.jpg is placed inside image directory at root. So Base tag ketp inside HEAD tag is

<base href=../images/>

In our present directory , inside this page we have image URL like this.

<img src=logo.jpg>

Output is here
DEMO of base url

We have used relative URL here, we can also use absolute URL like this.

<base href=https://www.plus2net.com/images/>

Reading base URL

We can get base URL of the page by using this script.

<script>
var base_URL = document.baseURI;
alert(base_URL); // https://www.plus2net.com/html_tutorial/html-base-url.php
alert(window.location.origin) // https://www.plus2net.com
alert(window.location.host) // www.plus2net.com
</script>

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HTML <BASE> tag

Attributes

Example : Link with target=_blank ( open in new window )

Example : Linking image from image directory of root.

Reading base URL

Subhendu Mohapatra