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Boris C
Boris C

Reputation: 679

including css in Django

I'm new to Django, and i'm having hard time including css styles in a template.

I read this and tried to do the same but it's not working for me.

my Template:

{% load static %}<html><head><link href="{% get_static_prefix %}/style.css" rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' /></head><body>

the HTML i get:

<head><link href="C:/Users/Nayish/workspace/am/src/am/static/style.css"rel='stylesheet'type='text/css' /></head>

Note that this is the folder containing my css.

Thanks, Boris.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2975

Answers (2)

Benjamin Wohlwend
Benjamin Wohlwend

Reputation: 31868

Make sure you haven't mixed up the STATIC_ROOT and STATIC_URL settings.

STATIC_ROOT defines where the files are on the storage system (usually your local hard disc for local development), while STATIC_URL defines the URL from where the server serves them. The second one is usually referred to in templates, and it is also the value that the {% get_static_prefix %} template tag returns.

Upvotes: 3

Nix
Nix

Reputation: 58602

I am guessing you aren't using static css sheets. I always just do:

<html>
<head>
            {%block stylesheet %}
               <style type="text/css" title="currentStyle"> 
                   @import "{{MEDIA_URL}}css/style.css";
               </style>
            {% endblock stylesheet%}
   ....

I then set my Media root, and store the files as 

 MEDIA_ROOT=<fullyquallified patyh>/Media/css/<css files>
 MEDIA_URL=http://localhost/mysite/

It should be noted that STATIC_URL defaults to MEDIA_URL if its not defined.

Upvotes: 0

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