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Ahmad Hamdy
Ahmad Hamdy

Reputation: 35

Static files not loaded into templates

I am new to Django and so far all I know about static files is that they are CSS, JS, and images and they should be in a directory called static within the app directory

but when I use one of these files in my template like that:

first I load the static files

{% load static %} <!-- in the 1st line of the template -->

then I link the CSS file like that

<link href="{% static 'auctions/styles.css' %}" rel="stylesheet">

They don't load and the styles don't seem to appear so I just want to know what I am missing here

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static root and url from settings

STATIC_URL = '/static/'

STATIC_ROOT = 'E:/Work/SoftwareDevelopment/Web/Django/commerce/auctions/static'

Upvotes: 1

Views: 562

Answers (2)

David Barenco
David Barenco

Reputation: 11

Are your auctions's static folder separated in css, js, images folders? If so, you are missing specifying that in static:

'auctions/css/styles.css'

If that doesn't work, try running collectstatic manually and getting the path to the file from there to pass in the html.

Upvotes: 0

David Barenco
David Barenco

Reputation: 11

Did you ran python manage.py collectstatic?

You also need to configurate your settings.py with STATIC_URL = '/static/'

Docs

Upvotes: 1

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