On Feb 11, 2007, at 12:01 PM, Geoffrey Sneddon wrote:
To take this from a discussion last month on atom-syntax:
What is meant to happen if you set innerHTML of a <div> where the
set value has both a <base> and an <a>?
first of all the <base> element can only be inserted in HTML
documents. The spec states that there can only be one <base> element.
The <base> element must be used before any elements that use
relative URI's.
If the insertion mode is "in body" handle the token as follows:
A start tag token whose tag name is one of: "base", "link",
"meta", "title"
Parse error. Process the token as if the insertion mode had
been "in head". [1]
So inserting a <base> element in the body results in a parse error.
[1] http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#how-to0
- Geoffrey Sneddon
