Last Updated on April 26, 2023 by Roshan Parihar
HTML base tag is used to specify the base url of a website.
This base url becomes the starting point of all the url’s. If You want to set the main url to take as the starting point of all the url, then use base tag.
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<base href="enter starting point url here" target="_blank"> |
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<base href="https://tutorialdeep.com" target="_blank"> |
Base tag target attribute
The target attribute of base tag is used to specify the location to open the linked web document.
| Sr. No. | target atribute options | Description |
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| 1 | _blank | Open the linked document in the new window/tab |
| 2 | _self | Open the linked document in the same window/tab |
| 3 | _parent | Used to create header cells in a table. |
| 4 | _top | Used to create a cells in each rows of a table. |
Resources and References of HTML base tag
1. W3C Specification.
2. HTML living standard
3. W3C project using Github