HTML Base tag and relative anchors

Question

I'm starting to create websites with admin areas in different directories. So I'm starting to use the HTML base tag to tell the browser the base location for relative paths to start at. It seems to work great for everything except one thing.

My problem is that when I do this:

<base href="http://localhost/testsite/"> ... <a href="/">Link to home</a>

That link doesn't take me to my testsite index.html page, it takes me to the localhost directory tree. Am I doing something wrong here?

Guffa · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-16 17:54:02Z

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You are not using a relative path there, it's an absolute path. The relative path to the current folder would be a single period:

<a href=".">Link to home</a>

answered May 16, 2013 at 17:54

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CaribouCode Over a year ago

Ah I knew it would be something simple. Thanks for the help, green tick coming your way.

Jukka K. Korpela Over a year ago

The URL / is relative, not absolute. The problem is that it is relative to the server root, not to the current base URL (as . is).

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