What does <base> element do?

Question

<base> element in html

Answer 1

Given a page accessible at

http://abc.xyz/index.html

and an anchor link as follow

<a href="/investor" />

which will point to

http://abc.xyz/investor

and now with base element we can change it to resolve into

http://www.google.com/investor

instead. Clear as mud? 😉

💡 Further reading @ MDN
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/base