Can I set Javascript's base href (base URL) for all relative links?

[MrCat]

I'm using <base href> to set my HTML path for links, and chdir() to set PHP's base path.

(Entering site at www.mysite.com/account then resetting my paths back to root for simplicity).

 

Both of these are working fine, however I've found Javascript ignores <base href> so it's working directory is still a subfolder of root.

OK - so I could add '../' to all Javascript links (which is what I was trying to get away from!) but I've read that it's only IE that ignores <base href> and other browsers accept it.

This will mean my links break unless I either stop using <base href> entirely and go back to using '../' in ALL links, or I can find a way to set Javascript's base link pointer...

 

This is driving me crazy! Any ideas of how to do it?

 

[JasonLewis]

Generally what I do is in the head of my document, prior to loading any JavaScript files I'll create a JavaScript variable 'g_url' and set this to my sites base URL, which is set via PHP.

 

<script type="text/javascript">
var g_url = 'http://www.yourbaseurl.com/';
</script>

[MrCat]

Thanks for that. I have decided to do similar to what you've suggested and completely re-organised the links in my site now.

Was hoping for a quick fix but I don't actually think it was possible!