在决定是否使用<base>标记之前，您需要了解它是如何工作的，它可以用于什么以及它的含义是什么，并最终超过优点/缺点。
<base>标记主要简化了模板语言中相对链接的创建，因为您不需要担心每个链接中的当前上下文。
比如说
<base href="${host}/${context}/${language}/">
...
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/style.css" />
<script src="js/script.js"></script>
...
<a href="home">home</a>
<a href="faq">faq</a>
<a href="contact">contact</a>
...
<img src="img/logo.png" />
而不是
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/${context}/${language}/css/style.css" />
<script src="/${context}/${language}/js/script.js"></script>
...
<a href="/${context}/${language}/home">home</a>
<a href="/${context}/${language}/faq">faq</a>
<a href="/${context}/${language}/contact">contact</a>
...
<img src="/${context}/${language}/img/logo.png" />
请注意，<base href>值以斜杠结束，否则它将相对于最后一个路径进行解释。
As to browser compatibility, this causes only problems in IE. The <base> tag is in HTML specified as not having an end tag </base>, so it's legit to just use <base> without an end tag. However IE6 thinks otherwise and the entire content after the <base> tag is in such case placed as child of the <base> element in the HTML DOM tree. This can cause at first sight unexplainable problems in Javascript/jQuery/CSS, i.e. the elements being completely unreachable in specific selectors like html>body, until you discover in the HTML DOM inspector that there should be a base (and head) in between.
一个常见的IE6修复是使用IE条件注释来包含结束标记:
<base href="http://example.com/en/"><!--[if lte IE 6]></base><![endif]-->
如果你不关心W3验证器，或者当你已经在HTML5上，那么你可以自我关闭它，每个web浏览器都支持它:
<base href="http://example.com/en/" />
关闭<base>标记还可以立即修复WinXP SP3上的IE6在无限循环中使用src中的相对URI请求<script>资源的疯狂问题。
Another potential IE problem will manifest when you use a relative URI in the <base> tag, such as <base href="//example.com/somefolder/"> or <base href="/somefolder/">. This will fail in IE6/7/8. This is however not exactly browser's fault; using relative URIs in the <base> tag is namely at its own wrong. The HTML4 specification stated that it should be an absolute URI, thus starting with the http:// or https:// scheme. This has been dropped in HTML5 specification. So if you use HTML5 and target HTML5 compatible browsers only, then you should be all fine by using a relative URI in the <base> tag.
As to using named/hash fragment anchors like <a href="#anchor">, query string anchors like <a href="?foo=bar"> and path fragment anchors like <a href=";foo=bar">, with the <base> tag you're basically declaring all relative links relative to it, including those kind of anchors. None of the relative links are relative to the current request URI anymore (as would happen without the <base> tag). This may in first place be confusing for starters. To construct those anchors the right way, you basically need to include the URI,
<a href="${uri}#anchor">hash fragment</a>
<a href="${uri}?foo=bar">query string</a>
<a href="${uri};foo=bar">path fragment</a>
其中${uri}基本上翻译成PHP中的$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']， ${pageContext.request。JSP中的requestURI}和#{请求。JSF中的requestURI}。应该注意的是，像JSF这样的MVC框架有标签，减少了所有这些样板文件，并消除了<base>的需要。请参见a.o.使用什么URL链接/导航到其他JSF页面。
