Core: set the base href of the context in parseHTML

Fixes gh-2965
Close gh-3022

1 files changed, 22 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/src/core/parseHTML.js b/src/core/parseHTML.js
index 30405363c..260fd3ca7 100644
--- a/src/core/parseHTML.js
+++ b/src/core/parseHTML.js
@@ -21,14 +21,28 @@ jQuery.parseHTML = function( data, context, keepScripts ) {
 		context = false;
 	}
 
-	// Stop scripts or inline event handlers from being executed immediately
-	// by using document.implementation
-	context = context || ( support.createHTMLDocument ?
-		document.implementation.createHTMLDocument( "" ) :
-		document );
-
-	var parsed = rsingleTag.exec( data ),
-		scripts = !keepScripts && [];
+	var base, parsed, scripts;
+
+	if ( !context ) {
+
+		// Stop scripts or inline event handlers from being executed immediately
+		// by using document.implementation
+		if ( support.createHTMLDocument ) {
+			context = document.implementation.createHTMLDocument( "" );
+
+			// Set the base href for the created document
+			// so any parsed elements with URLs
+			// are based on the document's URL (gh-2965)
+			base = context.createElement( "base" );
+			base.href = document.location.href;
+			context.head.appendChild( base );
+		} else {
+			context = document;
+		}
+	}
+
+	parsed = rsingleTag.exec( data );
+	scripts = !keepScripts && [];
 
 	// Single tag
 	if ( parsed ) {