Polymer rewrites anchor hrefs

[robdodson]

Description

A relative url inside the href of an anchor element inside a Polymer element gets rewritten to be relative to the import.

For instance, if my element lives in src/elements

Something like <a href="foo"> becomes <a href="/src/elements/foo">. While this behavior is desirable for things like CSS and images, it is not desirable for anchors as it messes up the ability to do routing with relative paths. This is especially important because Polymer's rewrite happens in a way that ignores the <base> element, meaning if you want to serve your project from a subdirectory (like GH pages) you can't easily use <base> to tack on the subdir.

cc @sorvell @justinfagnani

[sorvell]

This needs to be updated in Polymer and the HTMLImports polyfill. Tools will also need to be updated. We'll also need to add an option to Polymer 1.x

[kevinpschaaf]

Resolved in 2.x via #4357.

This will be resolved in 1.x via #4367 once that change lands by using the pattern <a href="[[rootPath]]relativeToRoot.html"> in 1.x, since paths with bindings are not rewritten.

[FluorescentHallucinogen]

Is this issue fixed and can be closed?

[robdodson]

Pretty sure it can. I'll close it and see if anything explodes 🙈

[jfrazzano]

Will this happen with an object element carrying data attribute or src. I only use the data attribute

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[robdodson]

@jfrazzano you can see what the fix does here:
#4357 (comment)