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Name

<base> — NN: 2, 3, 4 • MSIE: 2, 3, 4, 5 • HTML 4 • WebTV • Opera3

Synopsis

<base>

Specifies the base URL for all relative URLs in the document. Place this within the <head> of the document.

Attributes

href=url: Specifies the URL to be used.
target=name: Defines the default target window for all links in the document. Often used to target frames. This attribute is not supported in Internet Explorer 2.0.

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