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Hello all,

I've got an HTML page with some internal links is the form of

<a href="#no1">

I'm also using (or trying to use) the BASE tag, so that all relative
external links will actually resolve to another webpage.


The problem is that the above "#no1" internal link *also* tries to resolve
to an external webpage - where want to keep it in the current one.

Is there a way to do that ? (other than making all external links absolute
I mean :-) )

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


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On Tue, 2 Jun 2026 19:27:29 +0200, R.Wieser wrote:

Hello all,

I've got an HTML page with some internal links is the form of

<a href="#no1">

I'm also using (or trying to use) the BASE tag, so that all relative external links will actually resolve to another webpage.

The problem is that the above "#no1" internal link *also* tries to resolve to an external webpage - where want to keep it in the current one.

Is there a way to do that ? (other than making all external links absolute I mean :-) )

Regards,
Rudy Wieser

With pure HTML? No.

<base> defines & overrides the base URL for all relative URL references in
the current page.

The default base URL is the current page's URL minus anchor/hash.

Mere `#here` URL is a relative URL. i.e. relative to the current page.
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On Wed, 3 Jun 2026 17:33:45 +0700, JJ wrote:

On Tue, 2 Jun 2026 19:27:29 +0200, R.Wieser wrote:

Hello all,

I've got an HTML page with some internal links is the form of

<a href="#no1">

I'm also using (or trying to use) the BASE tag, so that all relative
external links will actually resolve to another webpage.

The problem is that the above "#no1" internal link *also* tries to resolve >> to an external webpage - where want to keep it in the current one.

Is there a way to do that ? (other than making all external links absolute
I mean :-) )

Regards,
Rudy Wieser

With pure HTML? No.

<base> defines & overrides the base URL for all relative URL references in the current page.

The default base URL is the current page's URL minus anchor/hash.

Mere `#here` URL is a relative URL. i.e. relative to the current page.

So in your case, if that section link is in `main.html`, then the `href`
must specifically point to `main.html` plus the hash. If base points to different origin, then the `href` must be an absolute URL. Or `//host/path` relative URL, if the protocol of both origins are the same.
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JJ,

The problem is that the above "#no1" internal link *also* tries to
resolve to an external webpage - where want to keep it in the
current one.

Is there a way to do that ? (other than making all external links
absolute I mean :-) )

With pure HTML? No.

<base> defines & overrides the base URL for all relative URL references
in the current page.

I was already afraid of that.

Though its a bit odd to me that a link starting with "#" (read: no
relative path preceeding it) isn't recognised as being internal.

Oh well.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


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On Wed, 3 Jun 2026 13:59:59 +0200, R.Wieser wrote:

JJ,

The problem is that the above "#no1" internal link *also* tries to
resolve to an external webpage - where want to keep it in the
current one.

Is there a way to do that ? (other than making all external links
absolute I mean :-) )

With pure HTML? No.

<base> defines & overrides the base URL for all relative URL references
in the current page.

I was already afraid of that.

Though its a bit odd to me that a link starting with "#" (read: no
relative path preceeding it) isn't recognised as being internal.

Oh well.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser

Hash is part of URL components which are:
protocol, host name/IP, port, path, variables, hash.
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JJ,

Though its a bit odd to me that a link starting with "#" (read: no
relative path preceeding it) isn't recognised as being internal.

Hash is part of URL components which are:
protocol, host name/IP, port, path, variables, hash.

I know.

Did you know that FF doesn't send the hash part when you click a link that
has one ?

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


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JJ,

Hash is part of URL components which are:
protocol, host name/IP, port, path, variables, hash.

To be more precise :

protocol, [username], [password], host name/IP, [port], [path], [variables], [hash]

with the bracketed parts optional (the protocol may be omitted *in a link* when the string starts with a double slash).

In that regard of the above a link with an href starting with a hash is invalid.

... yet, it works perfectly. :-)

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


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