Some images that look like they shouldn’t work (bad relative URLs), are being displayed

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Asked: May 23, 20262026-05-23T18:23:58+00:00 2026-05-23T18:23:58+00:00

Some images that look like they shouldn’t work (bad relative URLs), are being displayed in the browsers.

For example, on this page:

This image is displayed correctly:

<img src="images/B603A.jpg"/>

By my reckoning, the absolute path should be:

http://www.jbprince.com/pastry-bags-tips-and-brushes/images/B603A.jpg

which doesn’t resolve. But it displays in the browser, and if you click “copy image URL” it shows:

http://www.jbprince.com/images/B603A.jpg

Shouldn’t images be a subdirectory of pastry-bags-tips-and-brushes as there is no preceding slash? What am I missing here?

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Editorial Team · Answer 1 · 2026-05-23T18:23:58+00:00

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Note this line in the <head>:

<base href="http://www.jbprince.com/">

So this is not a bad link, since

<img src="images/B603A.jpg"/>

is appended to the base (see base), thus results in

http://www.jbprince.com/images/B603A.jpg

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