I’ve just found an HTML tag I never knew existed, and it’s something I’ve wished I had many times before!
The <base href=""> tag lets you set a default prefix to all links to external sources.
So for example:
<html>
<head>
<base href="http://www.kirupa.com">
</head>
<body>
<a href="web/index.htm">PHP</a><br />
<a href="forum">FORUM</a><br />
</body>
</html>
The two links above would point to “http://www.kirupa.com/web/index.htm” and “http://www.kirupa.com/forum” respectively.
You can even set the base href as something like “http://mydomain.com/folder/subFolder” and then traverse back up the directory tree using “…/” in your links.
I can see how this probably sounds very dull, but I think it’s brilliant, especially as I’ve never heard of it before.
