loaded base tag contaminates original document via load(url) in Firefox 3.5.3

[mimo]

I'm using the following:

$("#placeholder").load("​http://other.host/loaded/doc #source a"...)

When /loaded/doc contains <base href> it contaminates the document I'm doing this inclusion. This is observable when I do the following (after the load above)

$("#x").html( $("#y").html())

while #y looks as follows: <div id="y"> <img src="/img/src" /> </div>

In such case firefox is not able to load the img in #x becouse it's baseURI is taken from the /loaded/doc.

The above construct works fine in IE, Opera, but when I examine the copied html, img has it's baseURI changed to the one loaded.

[mimo]

just one more comment - both #x and #y are not contained in #placeholder - these are totally unrelated, but somehow the got contaminated by the baseURI when copied using html()

[dmethvin]

The loaded HTML fragment shouldn't have a BASE tag, because that tag is only valid in the HEAD of a document and you're not inserting content there.

​http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/links.html#h-12.4