Url Fragments And The Base Tag

I'm using the tag in an application to simplify development. I'm aware of the 'feature' that occurs when an anchor is only a URL fragment, as in it routes to the

Solution 1:

Ok, so, I think I understand the question now.

This has been tested in Google Chrome and Firefox.

Add this javascript at the end of the body:

base=document.getElementsByTagName("base"); 
base=base[0].href;

links=document.getElementsByTagName('a');

for(index in links){
    if(links[index].href.indexOf(base+"#")==0){
        links[index].href=document.location+links[index].href.slice(links[index].href.indexOf("#"));
    }
}

Solution 2:

Don't use relative urls. The base tag won't affect urls like /home or http://google.com, but it will effect about/us or users/12

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