Issue using printf with BaseURL variable

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I am running hugo locally. I have the following:

{{ $base := .Site.BaseURL }}
<a {{ printf "href=%q" $base | safeHTMLAttr }}>foo</a>
<a {{ printf "href=%q" .Site.BaseURL | safeHTMLAttr }}>bar</a>

the first href results in %!q(<nil, the second one in http://localhost:1313/.

Why is the first href incorrect?

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I’m not sure what you are trying to achieve with this variants. If you want to get the absolute URL to your homepage you might want to use:

<a href="{{ absURL "" }}">Home</a>

nevertheless your code produces the same output for me:

as a guess I would think these code l,ines are just copied from different places in your template(s) having other code around and the _CONTEXT-DOT at .Site is different.

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While the above is recommended over the original poster, I would highly recommend:

<a href="{{ site.Home.Permalink }}">Home</a>
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just curious

because it’s easier to see what it does (agreed) or … speed, stability , problems?

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Well, it’s 1) less room for errors (you get an error if you e.g. type site.Shome) 2) I think in general it’s a good practise to use the Page object for linking/navigation, which becomes more obvious in more complex examples.

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which becomes more obvious in more complex examples

One of these more complex examples is “permalinkable” output formats.