Maybe this question has been asked a lot,
but I still can't understand how to load CSS files when using django...
Please can anyone explain to me step by step how to load it?
Can I load the CSS file without the static folder or link, so I don't need to change the urls.conf but just setting in "setting.py" file?
(Sorry if my English is bad") :(
on local machine: you have to add:
(r'^site_media/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve', {'document_root': '/path/to/media'}),
on a server you don't (and more you shouldn't for security reasons) need the previous line.
So finally: here is my architecture:
project/
app1/
__init.py__
views.py
public/
site_media/
js/
example.js
css/
example.css
in my settings.py:
MEDIA_ROOT = '/thecompletepath/public/site_media/'
MEDIA_URL = '/site_media/'
and in my templates, i use:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/site_media/css/example.css" media="screen" />
RequestContext with your views and use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in place of /site_media/, and you're golden. You should also mention that by "on a server you don't ... need the previous line", you meant that one should use server-specific configuration to serve the media through the server rather than through django.Just add a normal link tag to your template.
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://example.com/path/to.file.css">
Unless you have a dynamic CSS file, you would not want to have it related to anything in urls.py. Likewise, if you're not using the media (static) folder, you don't need to change anything in settings.py. Just insert it into your HTML in the template.
If you don't want to use an external CSS file, of course, you can always just put <style> tags into your templates.
