Absolut/relative path using <base> tag

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Hello everybody,
I am new so this is the occasion to say hello to everybody.
I have a problem with absolute/relative paths. I have to create a static documentation in html for a project and I have to create an index page in every sub-directory. The structure is like the following:

/
/sources/
/docs/
/docs/doc1
/share

So, in the "share" dir I have the style sheets, images, etc. common to all pages. I thought to use the <base> tag to avoid relative paths in href for images or style sheets. I.e., in the index.html in "sources" dir:

<head><base href="../" /></head>
...
<img href="share/img1.png" />

This could allows me to copy the index.html file in the "docs/doc1" directory or whatever dir and change only the base tag to point to the root direcotry of the project.

This not works for me. The only way is to specify the absolute path like

<base href="file:///absolute_path" />

or

<base href="http:///website" />

Why I cannot specify the base address as relative to the current directory? Thanks in advance.

Yan

Nov 16 '06 #1

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AricC

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Lets say you have these folders in your directory:

/images
/styles
/content
In your main index page you would access them like so "images/xxx.jpg" if you were in content and you wanted to to access images you would do something like "../images/xxx.jpg"

Here is a link if you don't follow what I am saying.

HTH,
Aric

Nov 16 '06 #2

yan

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Thank you for your response. But what I try to do is the following. If I have the index.html under the /docs dir for example, it can refers to objects under the /share dir by using href="../share/xxx.jpg". Since I want to use an index.html for every directory if I copy the index.html page from /docs to /docs/doc1 I have to change all the referencies to href="../../share/xxx.jpg and this would be repeated for every reference in the file.

It would be more convenient if I could specify the base tag once on the top of the index.html. I.e., for the index.html in the /docs/doc1 dir I would add <base href="../" /> and let unchanged all the references coming from the file copyed from the /doc dir.

Y.

Nov 17 '06 #3

AricC

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What index page are you using for every directory all you need is a blank html page named index this prevents people from seeing the contents of the directory. You really don't need to use the base tag lets say you have

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<base href=http://www.somewebsite.com/index.htm>

And you have some images

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<img src="images/xxx.jpg">

This would make the image url http://www.somewebsite.com/images.jpg you can do the same with paths and leave out the base tag.

Nov 17 '06 #4

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