[SOLVED] html link shortcut

motherboard · 09-04-2019, 04:19 PM

Code:

<a href="http://www.website.com/very/long/path/page1.htm">Page 1</a>
<a href="http://www.website.com/very/long/path/page2.htm">Page 2</a>
<a href="http://www.website.com/very/long/path/page3.htm">Page 3</a>

The above requires me to keep inserting
"http://www.website.com/very/long/path"

What is the html version of the below?

Code:

foo=http://www.website.com/very/long/path
<a href="$foo/page1.htm">Page 1</a>
<a href="$foo/page2.htm">Page 2</a>
<a href="$foo/page3.htm">Page 3</a>

scasey · 09-04-2019, 04:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by motherboard

Code:

<a href="http://www.website.com/very/long/path/page1.htm">Page 1</a>
<a href="http://www.website.com/very/long/path/page2.htm">Page 2</a>
<a href="http://www.website.com/very/long/path/page3.htm">Page 3</a>

The above requires me to keep inserting
"http://www.website.com/very/long/path"

What is the html version of the below?

Code:

foo=http://www.website.com/very/long/path
<a href="$foo/page1.htm">Page 1</a>
<a href="$foo/page2.htm">Page 2</a>
<a href="$foo/page3.htm">Page 3</a>

If every link in the document is at the foreign url, use <base> in the <head> section:

Code:

<head>
  <base href="http://www.website.com/very/long/path/" target="_blank">
</head>

<body>
<a href="page1.htm">Page 1</a>
...
</body>

See: https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_base.asp

Note that that may not work with the /very/long/path/ part ins the <base> tag. I haven't tried it.

dugan · 09-04-2019, 05:00 PM

I hate to give a "go google it" answer, but I think a search for "static site generator" might be what you're looking for.

ondoho · 09-05-2019, 01:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by motherboard

What is the html version of the below?

Code:

foo=http://www.website.com/very/long/path
<a href="$foo/page1.htm">Page 1</a>
<a href="$foo/page2.htm">Page 2</a>
<a href="$foo/page3.htm">Page 3</a>

PHP.

Though scasey's advice looks very good, too.