Sidebar links are broken in the HTML version

[victor-pavlychko]

All sidebar navigational links point to the root document. Looks like this is caused by the <base href="\#(baseURL)"/> element.

[mattt]

Yeah, this is something @kean pointed out in a recent thread (still catching up from the weekend, sorry!)

This behavior of base tags surprised me – I didn’t know about this behavior before. In light of this new information, I think we should consider the alternative approach discussed in #65, which was to factor the base URL into the path helper.

[kean]

My bad, I misunderstood how base works. It applies not just to relative URLs, but also anchors https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/base.

I use absolute paths on my Jekyll site. It is convenient when this parameter available globally so every page you generate has access to it.

[mattt]

@kean Same here wrt/Jekyll and absolute paths. My suggestion to use a <base> tag was out of left field, and a bad call on my part. The good news is that we haven't released a new version with that yet, so we can make this change without worrying about backwards compatibility.

[dsmurfin]

I think this is also the same issue in the CommonMark version.

[mattt]

@dsmurfin That is indeed the cause. I'll prioritize a fix for this work to get that out later today.

Edit: See #93

[mattt]

This is fixed by #93.