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<base>

Sets the base URL for every relative URL in the document.

Baseline: Widely available · Document structure

When to use it

Almost never — only when a document is deliberately served from multiple locations and must resolve assets against one canonical base.

When not to

It rewrites fragment links too (#main skip links, SVG url(#id) references), silently breaking them; prefer correct relative paths.

Key attributes

href
the base URL
target
default browsing context for links

Example

<base href='https://html-tags.com/docs/'>
Source — this snippet needs a fuller context to render.

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