problem with base href

[anorakgirl]

hi,
i'm having problems using the base tag, and i'm not sure where they're coming from.

in the head of my document, i have

<base href=&quot;[URL unfurl="true"]http://localhost/sitedir/&quot;>[/URL]

my images are in a subdirectory of the main directory
i.e. i could access an image at

[URL unfurl="true"]http://localhost/sitedir/imagedir/image.gif[/URL]

im my html, the images are referenced like this:

<img src=&quot;images/image.gif&quot;>

so far as i can see that looks right, but when i look at the site in internet explorer 6, the images are not displayed. it seems to take ages trying to download them, and if i right click where an image should be, and choose properties, the url for the image is correct.

i can't see what i'm doing, i'm guessing it must be a browser problem rather than a server problem, although i'm running through IIS on windows 2000 for info.

anyone had a similar problem, or cans ee what i'm doing wrong with my base tag?

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http://www.anorakgirl.co.uk

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[RISTMO]

What BASE does is it sets the path of anylink relative to where the href in the base is. Therefore your default directory is sitedir/. You need to get to sitedir/imagedir/image.gif, so your link needs to be like this.
<base href=&quot;

http://localhost/sitedir/&quot;>

<img src=&quot;imagedir/image.gif&quot;>

Rick

 

[anorakgirl]

oops that was a typo in my original post, i did actually have the image tag like that, just wrote

images

rather than

imagedir

in my example.

funnily enough a reboot seems to have it all working as i expected it should, computers, grr!

thanks anyway.
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http://www.anorakgirl.co.uk

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