W3C HTML4.01 and base href problem

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W3C HTML4.01 and base href problem

Seems advice is to have base href but W3C do not think so

Moncao

8:32 am on Sep 3, 2006 (gmt 0)

I have a site which is HTML4.01 compliant. I read about domain hijacking (I think that is the correct term) and the need to put a meta base href in your html. Problem is this makes my site non-compliant.

Any advice?

kaled

9:37 am on Sep 3, 2006 (gmt 0)

The base tag is NOT a meta tag.

Adding the target="_top" attribute will ensure that if someone frames your site, the frames will be broken by the first user click.

Kaled.

hiddenboston

4:03 pm on Sep 8, 2006 (gmt 0)

But you can't use the TARGET attribute if you are using XHTML/HTML strict, can you?

LunaC

3:33 pm on Sep 9, 2006 (gmt 0)

Base hrefs don't have a target, that's the part that's making it invalid. Just add this into your head (with your domain name of course):

I use that and validate just fine. According to what I found on the W3C, it's advised to use the full URL for each page, ie.

<base href="http://www.example.com/page.html">
<base href="http://www.example.com/folder/page.html"> etc.

kaled

3:54 pm on Sep 9, 2006 (gmt 0)

But you can't use the TARGET attribute if you are using XHTML/HTML strict, can you?

The original question specified HTML 4.01 (without specifying loose or strict).

You can use the target attribute even in XHTML however it may stop validation. I've argued it many times before, but the absence of the target attribute from certain doctypes is just plain stupid. If you need it, use it, if you don't then don't.

Correct functionality is more important than validation.

Kaled.