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Base Tag

More relief for people who code frames

This fat web page contains the baseTag script object. Use the 'Get Page Data' command from the Scripts menu to copy baseTag into your object database. Also available: info about fat pages and the Terms under which you can use this script.

The base tag serves two separate and very different functions. The href attribute provides a basis for calculating relative links, and the target attribute sets a default target for links--handy for frames.

Although the href is required in the DTD, I leave it optional as neither Netscape nor IE follow the DTD here. Which makes sense--the attributes server two very different purposes.

Using the #base directive

#base "www.scripting.com" or

#base "http://www.scripting.com"

results in:

<BASE href="http://www.scripting.com">

You can also define targets for the BASE tag:

#base "www.eudora.com"
#basetarget "parent"

results in this BASE tag:

<BASE href="http://www.eudora.com" target="_parent">

Note how the script adds the underscore automatically to the target name. It does this only for the special target names: _parent, _top, _blank, and _self. If you forget the http:// at the beginning of your #base directive, the script also takes care of that for you. Remember, the BASE tag requires an absolute URL. Be sure your #base directive is in the proper form.

Another way to use the #base directive

The base directive can also be a list, with two items. The first item corresponds to the href attribute, and the second, to the target attribute.

#base {\"http:\//www.myserver.com/index.html\", "mainFrame"}

results in

<BASE href="http://www.myserver.com/index.html" target="mainFrame">

Mon, Mar 16, 1998 at 8:56:10 PM by PS

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