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HTML <base> in Chrome

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+6 A:

And to answer your question about the <base> tag being supported in Chrome: it is. I created a simple HTML document:

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html> 
  <head> 
    <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> 
    <base href="http://google.com"&gt; 
    <title>Testing base-tag</title> 
  </head> 
  <body> 
    <img src="/intl/en_ALL/images/logo.gif"> 
  </body> 
</html>

which is rendered correctly.

EDIT: PROBLEM PROBABLY DISCOVERED

I searched the Chromium bugs page for "base tag" and found two (probably the same) bugs about your problem, i.e. issue 25090 and 32134.

I suggest you file a comment in one of those (after deleting the forbidden end tag of <base>) and hope this problem is resolved soon.

EDIT 2: I made another test case and commented in this bug report.

EDIT 3: Bug seems to be resolved after upgrading to Chrome 4.0.249.89.

Marcel Korpel 2010-02-08 22:23:34

Ok, then do you have any idea why my page doesn't render the image (in the Chrome version posted?)

Paul Tarjan 2010-02-09 08:37:04

The only thing I can see is that the image url, according to Developer Tools, resolves to "chrome://devtools/intl/en_ALL/images/logo.gif" instead of "http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/images/logo.gif".

Marcel Korpel 2010-02-09 12:16:56

If I click "Inspect" and go to "Properties" and "HTMLImageElement" it lists the src as "http://webnumbr.com/intl/en_ALL/images/logo.gif" and the baseURI as "http://webnumbr.com/create?url=http://google.com". But for your test page, it is correctly setting the base to be "http://google.com".

Paul Tarjan 2010-02-10 19:05:47

problem is 100% solved in .89. I guess I don't have to hack around it after all! Thank you so much for your help, here's an upvote :)

Paul Tarjan 2010-02-11 07:06:50

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