DV2 Posted February 7, 2022 Share Posted February 7, 2022 The site I built uses 7.1 and works great. But a third party service needs to grab a "template" page to recreate the look of the site on their system. I created a blank page and it works great with one exception. The root-relative (aka domain relative, or domain absolute) links in the menu are changing to be relative to the third party domain when delivered from their server. So the link "/contact-us" doesn't point to "https://www.mysite.com/contact-us" but to "https://www.thirdpartyservice.com/contact-us" which is obviously a broken link. There are two possible solutions as I see it: 1) Rewrite the entire navigation using absolute links instead of pages so that all links point to the correct site. 2) Find a way to edit the <base> tag which Squarespace adds very high up inside the <head> code: <base href=""> Adding a new <base href="https://www.mysite.com"> line the head doesn't work. Apparently it isn't like CSS and is first-come first served. Modifying or injecting a new <base> tag with JavaScript doesn't work either as apparently the DOM is rendered on the first pass and changes to this sort of thing aren't processed. It would be a good Squarespace feature to be able to specify absolute vs root-relative menu links, or be able to modify the <base> tag somewhere in the settings. Does anyone know if this is possible? Any other ideas? Thanks! - Dan Link to comment
DV2 Posted February 8, 2022 Author Share Posted February 8, 2022 Just in case anyone runs across this problem in the future, I was able to come up with a solution. Injecting this script into the head rewrites the <base /> tag. <script> (function() { // Fetch base element and href attribute var baseElement = document.getElementsByTagName('base')[0]; // Update base with domain to make it absolute baseElement.setAttribute("href", "https://www.google.com"); }()); </script> Replace google.com with your domain (obviously). The third party service is called IDXBroker and has a lot of realtor services. BTW, they even have a Squarespace support page and say that you must relink the entire menu. Personally, I love solving problems that others claim are impossible. 🙂 Link to comment
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