How can I plug css into html by importing css from the main folder? I have a network project with 3 app.
network
--chat
--news
--static/style.css
...
My code:
{% load static %}
<link rel="stylesheet" href="{% style.css' %}">
It works if I create a static folder in some app, but I want to put it in the main network folder and then it stops working.
In your settings.py;
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATICFILES_DIRS = (os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static'),)
Then inside your html files;
{% load static %}
<link rel='stylesheet' href="{% static 'styles.css' %}">
Explanation
first of all i am setting the STATIC_URL which helps in the way that everytime you don't need to provide the path of the static files but use the syntax as i used ("{% static 'styles.css' %}").
After that i set the STATICFILES_DIRS which sets the directories where the app should search for the static files which i set to the static folder present in the base directory. You can set it as you want.
Perhaps this is a laughable problem but am really lost. It was working fine until I ported the project to a new laptop. Here is my filesystem structure:
bill
==>bill (contains settings.py)
==>static
==>welcome
==>manage.py
Now in static i have my directory, i have folder plugins, js and css. The following are in my base.html template:
<!DOCTYPE html>
{% load staticfiles %}
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>{% block ownername %}{% endblock %} {% block title %}{% endblock %}</title>
<script src="{% static 'plugins/jQuery/jquery-2.2.3.min.js' %}"></script>
<!-- Bootstrap 3.3.6 -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="{% static 'bootstrap/css/bootstrap.min.css' %}">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="{% static 'plugins/datepicker/datepicker3.css' %}">
**<link rel="stylesheet" href="{% static 'plugins/lobibox/lobibox.min.css' %}">**
<script src="{% static 'plugins/slimScroll/jquery.slimscroll.min.js' %}"></script>
**<script src="{% static 'plugins/moments/moment.min.js' %}"></script>**
It loads some resources while it gives 404 for some other resources that are there and working in my old laptop (the bold ones such as moment.min.js and css files). The configuration is the same since I used virtual environment to start it.
What am I missing please? I am really lost on what it is doing.
No question is laughable :)
To begin with, change {% load staticfiles %} to {% load static %}.
Then make sure you've got the correct settings in terms of static files. A good setup would look like this:
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "static")
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
If you are running your app without DEBUG=True, then also run python manage.py collectstatic --no-input from your terminal - that should do the trick to serve static assets in prod environment.
Try it and let us know how it went.
I just want to drop the favicon.ico in my staticfiles directory and then have it show up in my app.
How can I accomplish this?
I have placed the favicon.ico file in my staticfiles directory, but it doesn't show up and I see this in my log:
127.0.0.1 - - [21/Feb/2014 10:10:53] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 -
If I go to http://localhost:8000/static/favicon.ico, I can see the favicon.
If you have a base or header template that's included everywhere why not include the favicon there with basic HTML?
<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/png" href="{% static 'favicon.ico' %}"/>
One lightweight trick is to make a redirect in your urls.py file, e.g. add a view like so:
from django.views.generic.base import RedirectView
favicon_view = RedirectView.as_view(url='/static/favicon.ico', permanent=True)
urlpatterns = [
...
re_path(r'^favicon\.ico$', favicon_view),
...
]
This works well as an easy trick for getting favicons working when you don't really have other static content to host.
In template file
{% load static %}
Then within <head> tag
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="{% static 'favicon.ico' %}">
This assumes that you have static files configured appropiately in settings.py.
Note: older versions of Django use load staticfiles, not load static.
Universal solution
You can get the favicon showing up in Django the same way you can do in any other framework: just use pure HTML.
Add the following code to the header of your HTML template.
Better, to your base HTML template if the favicon is the same across your application.
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="{% static 'favicon/favicon.png' %}"/>
The previous code assumes:
You have a folder named 'favicon' in your static folder
The favicon file has the name 'favicon.png'
You have properly set the setting variable STATIC_URL
You can find useful information about file format support and how to use favicons in this article of Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon.
I can recommend use .png for universal browser compatibility.
EDIT:
As posted in one comment,
"Don't forget to add {% load staticfiles %} in top of your template file!"
In your settings.py add a root staticfiles directory:
STATICFILES_DIRS = [
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static')
]
Create /static/images/favicon.ico
Add the favicon to your template(base.html):
{% load static %}
<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/png" href="{% static 'images/favicon.ico' %}"/>
And create a url redirect in urls.py because browsers look for a favicon in /favicon.ico
from django.contrib.staticfiles.storage import staticfiles_storage
from django.views.generic.base import RedirectView
urlpatterns = [
...
path('favicon.ico', RedirectView.as_view(url=staticfiles_storage.url('images/favicon.ico')))
]
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="{% static 'favicon/favicon.ico' %}"/>
Just add that in ur base file like first answer but ico extension and add it to the static folder
First
Upload your favicon.ico to your app static path， or the path you configured by STATICFILES_DIRS in settings.py
Second
In app base template file:
{% load static %}
<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/png" href="{% static 'favicon.ico' %}"/>
You can make apps use different favicon.ico files here.
Addition
In project/urls.py
from django.templatetags.static import static # Not from django.conf.urls.static
from django.views.generic.base import RedirectView
Add this path to your urlpatterns base location
path('favicon.ico', RedirectView.as_view(url=static('favicon.ico'))),
This can let installed app(like admin, which you should not change the templates) and the app you forget modify the templates , also show a default favicon.ico
if you have permission then
Alias /favicon.ico /var/www/aktel/workspace1/PyBot/PyBot/static/favicon.ico
add alias to your virtual host. (in apache config file ) similarly for robots.txt
Alias /robots.txt /var/www/---your path ---/PyBot/robots.txt
I tried the following settings in django 2.1.1
base.html
<head>
{% load static %}
<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/png" href="{% static 'images/favicon.ico' %}"/>
</head>
settings.py
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static')
STATIC_URL = '/static/'` <br>`.............
Project directory structure
view live here
<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/png" href="{% static 'favicon/sample.png' %}" />
Also run: python manage.py collectstatic
The best solution is to override the Django base.html template. Make another base.html template under admin directory. Make an admin directory first if it does not exist. app/admin/base.html.
Add {% block extrahead %} to the overriding template.
{% extends 'admin/base.html' %}
{% load staticfiles %}
{% block javascripts %}
{{ block.super }}
<script type="text/javascript" src="{% static 'app/js/action.js' %}"></script>
{% endblock %}
{% block extrahead %}
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="{% static 'app/img/favicon.ico' %}" />
{% endblock %}
{% block stylesheets %}
{{ block.super }}
{% endblock %}
Came across this while looking for help. I was trying to implement the favicon in my Django project and it was not showing -- wanted to add to the conversation.
While trying to implement the favicon in my Django project I renamed the 'favicon.ico' file to 'my_filename.ico' –– the image would not show. After renaming to 'favicon.ico' resolved the issue and graphic displayed. below is the code that resolved my issue:
<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/png" href="{% static 'img/favicon.ico' %}" />
Best practices :
Contrary to what you may think, the favicon can be of any size and of any image type. Follow this link for details.
Not putting a link to your favicon can slow down the page load.
In a django project, suppose the path to your favicon is :
myapp/static/icons/favicon.png
in your django templates (preferably in the base template), add this line to head of the page :
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="{% static 'icons/favicon.png' %}">
Note :
We suppose, the static settings are well configured in settings.py.
Just copy your favicon on:
/yourappname/mainapp(ex:core)/static/mainapp(ex:core)/img
Then go to your mainapp template(ex:base.html)
and just copy this, after {% load static %} because you must load first the statics.
<link href="{% static 'core/img/favi_x.png' %}" rel="shortcut icon" type="image/png" />
Now(in 2020),
You could add a base tag in html file.
<head>
<base href="https://www.example.com/static/">
</head>
Sometimes restarting the server helps.
Stop the server and then rerun the command: python manage.py runserver
Now your CSS file should be loaded.
From django 1.5 onwards, https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.5/releases/1.5/#miscellaneous
The template tags library adminmedia, which only contained the
deprecated template tag {% admin_media_prefix %}, was removed.
Attempting to load it with {% load adminmedia %} will fail. If your
templates still contain that line you must remove it.
So what is the appropriate way to replace code found in legacy libraries and my legacy projects which still uses {% load adminmedia %} and loads css like:-
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{% load adminmedia %}{% admin_media_prefix %}css/login.css">
?
Since Django 1.3 you can use django.contrib.staticfiles app.
Make sure that django.contrib.staticfiles is included in your INSTALLED_APPS and the STATIC_ROOT and STATIC_URL options are specified in your settings.py.
Then run manage.py collectstatic command and all applications' static files will be collected in STATIC_ROOT folder.
In the templates you can use the {{ STATIC_URL }} context variable (make sure that django.core.context_processors.static is included in TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS) or the {% static %} template tag.
<link href="{{ STATIC_URL }}admin/css/login.css" rel="stylesheet">
or
{% load staticfiles %}
<link href="{% static 'admin/css/login.css' %}" rel="stylesheet">
I just copied what's in base.css:
{% load admin_static %}
and then
<link href="{% static 'admin/css/base.css' %}" rel="stylesheet">
(replace base.css with whatever you need, like login.css in your case)
Make sure you have django.contrib.staticfiles in your INSTALLED_APPS.
(I didn't need to configure STATIC_ROOT and run manage.py collectstatic as suggested previously by Anton)
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.
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.
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.