What Is the Base Tag/Element

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What Is the Base Tag/Element? - XHTML 1.0 Tutorials - Document Structure and Head Level Tags

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The "base" element is an optional sub-element of the "head" element. The "base" element specifies a base URL for all the hyper links in XHTML document. It has one required attribute called "href" to allow you to specify the base URL. Here is an example:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html>
 <head>
  <base href="http://dev.fyicenter.com/faq/" />
  <title>My First XHTML Document</title>
 </head>
 <body>
  <p><img src="/images/fyi.gif"" alt="FYI" /></p>
 </body>
</html>

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