The <base> Element

Document Metadata

The <base> element specifies the document's base URL that is used for resolving relative URLs, as well as the name of the default browsing context for the purposes of following hyperlinks.

Attributes for <base>

Type	Attribute List
'Standard' Attributes	"href" and "target"
New HTML5 Attributes	"writingsuggestions"

Recommended Links

• CanIUse.com: Search <base> (browser compatibility information)
• CanIEmail.com: Search <base> (email client compatibility information)
• HTML 4.01: BASE element
• HTML5 (WHATWG): base element
• MDN: <base>
• Quackit: HTML <base> tag

Search Engine Links (for more information)

• Bing "base element"
• Google "base element"