I have always thought a relative URL was relative to the URL in the browser address bar. But today my beliefs were shaken.
In a webpage that has the URL https://localhost:44372/docs/morpher.ru/ws/3/russian/declension/GET I put an href which looks like this:
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When I click the link, the browser takes me to
https://localhost:44372/response-format/index.md
Whereas I would expect to be taken to
https://localhost:44372/docs/morpher.ru/ws/response-format/index.md
Are my expectations incorrect? What is the relative path really relative to?
It's likely the case that there is a <base> tag.
You can change the relative path base like so:
<base href="https://example.com/new-base" />
Then, everything is relative to this, rather than what the page URL is.
Related
I have created a WordPress theme and the images in it were all broken so I added a base path tag to the page.
<base href="https://www.example.com/wp/wp-content/themes/my-theme/"/>
But now all of the anchor / links don't work.
click here
The above link points to "https://www.example.com/wp/wp-content/themes/my-theme/index.php#an_id_on_the_page" instead of the same page but further down.
WordPress recommends adding "" to the path of every image. But that means breaking a workflow and editing the HTML code on every change.
Are there any ideas to fix this?
UPDATE
It looks like if I put a "/" in front of the anchor it looks like it is working. I'll test it some more to confirm.
No links or named anchors or blank hrefs will point to the original subdirectory, unless that is made explicit: The base tag makes everything link differently, including same-page anchor links to the base tag's url instead, e.g:
<a href='#top-of-page' title='Some title'>A link to the top of the page via a named anchor</a>
becomes
<a href='http://www.example.com/other-subdirectory/#top-of-page' title='Some title'>A link to an #named-anchor on the completely different base page</a>
<a href='?update=1' title='Some title'>A link to this page</a>
becomes
<a href='http://www.example.com/other-subdirectory/?update=1' title='Some title'>A link to the base tag's page instead</a>
With some work, you can fix these problems on links that you have control over, by explicitly specifying that these links link to the page that they are on, but when you add third-party libraries to the mix that rely on the standard behavior, it can easily cause a big mess.
Resource,
This seems like a very basic HTML question, but I cannot find an answer here or elsewhere that actually works.
What I want to do is jump to an id link on the same document without reloading the document.
Here's my setup. The document is http://www.example.com/mydocument.htm/.
<head>
.
<base href="http://www.example.com">
.
.
</head>
<body>
<!-- Jump from ... -->
<div>
Jump to here.
</div>
<!-- Jump to ... -->
<div id="myid">
<Do stuff>
<Do more stuff>
</div>
</body>
This syntax, according to everything I have read on this site and elsewhere, is supposed to result in a jump within the current document without a page reload.
Doesn't work. My browsers (Firefox, Chrome) automatically stick the base href in front of the bookmark, viz: http://www.example.com/#myid, which opens my home page.
Not what I want.
If I change the href from "#myid" to /mydocument.htm#myid, then the jump completes, but the page reloads. Ditto if I use the absolute address: http://www.example.com/mydocument.htm/#myid.
I'm stuck. Any guidance?
The <base> element instructs the browser to append the URL in the href to all relative URLs on the page. So having:
<base href="http://www.example.com" />
Means that for :
here.
The href is handled as :
http://www.example.com/#myid
Instead of
<current_page>/#myid
You almost certainly don't need that <base> element in the head section, especially based on your further point that using the full URL (which also has http://www.example.com in it) works, meaning your page is already at http://www.example.com and thus doesn't need to make it explicit with <base>.
Alternatively (and I don't actually recommend this, because your use of base seems incorrect), you could change the href of your link to be the current page plus the id hash, like:
here.
As the browser will render the URL (when applying the base href) to :
http://www.example.com/mydocument.htm/#myid
and thus not try to leave the current page as it will treat it the same as if the base weren't set. (Note that this would only work when you have the base href set to the URL of the actual page's base, and as I mentioned earlier, that would make the base element unnecessary).
https://jsfiddle.net/ouLmvd3g/
If you are considering a javascript solution, since the <base> is apparently never necessary, I would recommend an event listener that removes the base element from the DOM rather than your suggested :
a fix using an event listener to remove the base URL for local links
A simple solution would be:
window.onload=function(){
var baseElement = document.getElementsByTagName("base")[0];
baseElement.parentNode.removeChild(baseElement);
}
https://jsfiddle.net/vLa0zgmc/
You could even add a bit of logic to check if the base element's href matches the current page's actual URL base, and only remove when it does. Something like:
var baseElements = document.getElementsByTagName("base");
if (baseElements.length > 0) {
var baseElement = baseElements[0];
var current_url = window.location.toString();
var base_url = baseElement.getAttribute("href");
// If the base url and current url overlap, remove base:
if (current_url.indexOf(base_url) === 0) {
baseElement.parentNode.removeChild(baseElement);
}
}
Example here : https://jsfiddle.net/gLeper25/2/
Thanks to all who responded.
In the end it turns out I was asking the wrong questions. What I needed was a means of jumping to an anchor on the same document without the document reloading. Unfortunately I got fixated on the problem with <base> interfering with the normal <a href....> process.
The actual answer was to use onClick instead, and the code was provided by #Davide Bubz in "Make anchor links refer to the current page when using <base>", and it's simple and elegant, using document.location.hash instead of <a href...>:
Anchor
where "test" is the ID identifying the item to be jumped to.
Several responders pointed to this thread as answering my issues, but I was not smart enough to understand its import until I had read it for the third time. Had I been smarter, I would have saved 6-1/2 hours of wasting my time on trying to fix the <base> problem.
Anyway, problem solved. Thanks to all and especially to Mr. Bubz.
Im on the page:
example.com/news
It's a list of news articles. Is it possible to set links on each news article and take into account the current url?
link to something
The above will link to:
example.com/news/article
Or will I need to get the entire route and specify that in the link?
The url could be anything eg. /products so I do not want to hardcode it in.
If you need to take into account the current path, use the page name directly in the href attribute:
If you are on example.com/news and used an href value of "article", the URL becomes example.com/news/article.
If you need to reference pages on the root directory, precede the page name with slash '/', href="/article".
Make it relative?
link to something
For some browsers/DOCTYPE, you may have to use this in conjunction with the base tag element, which will need to be added to every page that utilises relative paths:
<base href="http://www.example.com/news">
Here is an example of what I'm looking to do:
Link from a page with the path http://mysite.com/lorem/ipsum/ to http://mywebsite.com/ using a relative path.
My first thought was to use this: <a href='.../'>link</a>. But this ends up giving me http://mysite/lorem/ipsum/.../.
Is there a way to do this without calling the actual URL?
How about
link
:)
I used DOM in order to extract all HREF-s from given html source. But, there's a problem: If i have link like this one:
<LINK rel="alternate" TYPE="application/rss+xml" TITLE="ES: Glavni RSS feed" HREF="/rss.xml">
then "href" element will be presented as /rss.xml, although that "/rss.xml" is just anchor text. Clicking on that link from Chrome's page source view, real link is opened.
I would like to take that href-s LINK, not anchor text. Please, how can i do it with dom?
Get a hold of the link element and get its href property. Suppose you were using an id,
<link id="myLink" rel="alternate" href="/rss.xml" />
var link = document.getElementById("myLink");
link.href; // http://www.example.com/rss.xml
"href" element will be presented as /rss.xml
Yes, that is the value of the attribute
although that "/rss.xml" is just anchor text.
No. <link> elements don't have anchor text. In the following example 'bar' is anchor text.
bar
Clicking on that link from Chrome's page source view, real link is opened.
Browsers know how to resolve relative URIs.
I would like to take that href-s LINK, not anchor text. Please, how can i do it with dom?
You can't use DOM to resolve a URI. You use DOM to get the value of the attribute and then use something else to resolve it as a relative URI.
The article Using and interpreting relative URLs explains how they work, and there are tools that can help resolve them.
You need to know the base URI that the relative URI is relative to (normally the URI of the document containing the link, but things like the base element can throw that off)
In Perl you might:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use URI;
my $str = '/rss.xml';
my $base_uri = 'http://example.com/page/with/link/to/rss.xml';
print URI->new_abs( $str, $base_uri );
Which gives:
http://example.com/rss.xml
You can try using document.location.href to get the current URL and append the result you are getting from your example. That should give you an absolute path for the link.