HTML | DOM Base href Property

Last Updated : 17 Apr, 2019

The DOM Base href Property in HTML DOM is used to set or return the value of the href attribute of a <base> element. The href attribute is used to specify the base URL for all the relative URL in the webpage.

Syntax:

It returns the href property.
```
baseObject.href
```
It is used to set the href property.
```
baseObject.href = URL
```

Property Values: It contains the value i.e URL which specifies the base URL of a webpage.

Return Value: It returns a string value which represents the base URL of the webpage including the name of the protocol.

Example:This Example returns the href Property.

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html> 
  
<head> 
    <base id="Geek_Base" 
          href="https://www.geeksforgeeks.org"> 
    <title> 
        HTML | DOM Base href Property 
    </title> 
</head> 
  
<body style="text-align:center;"> 
  
    <h1 style="color:green;">  
            GeeksForGeeks  
        </h1> 
  
    <h2> 
      HTML | DOM Base href Property 
  </h2> 
  
    <button onclick="myGeeks()"> 
        Click 
    </button> 
    <h4><p id="Geek_p" 
           style="color:green; 
                  font-size:24px;"> 
      </p> 
  </h4> 
  
    <script> 
        function myGeeks() { 
  
            // returninh the href Propertyt.  
            var x = 
                document.getElementById( 
                    "Geek_Base").href; 
  
            document.getElementById( 
                "Geek_p").innerHTML = x; 
        } 
    </script> 
</body> 
  
</html> 

Output:

Before Clicking On Button :

After Clicking On Button :

Example-2 : This Example sets the href Property.

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html> 
  
<head> 
    <base id="Geek_Base"
          href="https://www.geeksforgeeks.org"> 
    <title> 
        HTML | DOM Base href Property 
    </title> 
</head> 
  
<body style="text-align:center;"> 
  
    <h1 style="color:green;">  
            GeeksForGeeks  
        </h1> 
  
    <h2> 
      HTML | DOM Base href Property 
  </h2> 
  
    <button onclick="myGeeks()"> 
        Click 
    </button> 
    <h4><p id="Geek_p"
           style="color:green; 
                  font-size:24px;"> 
      </p> 
  </h4> 
  
    <script> 
        function myGeeks() { 
  
            // returninh the href Propertyt.  
            var x = 
                document.getElementById( 
                "Geek_Base").href = "https://www.finecomb.com/"; 
  
            document.getElementById( 
                "Geek_p").innerHTML =  
            "the value of the href attribute was changed to " + x; 
        } 
    </script> 
</body> 
  
</html> 