Hi, STATIC_URL is not working in your template because the template does not get the RequestContext, which has all the variables in it.
use the render shortcut [1] instead of render_to_reponse BTW: It seems you are using the development version. You should change to 1.3.1 Does this help? [1] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/topics/http/shortcuts/#render On Nov 23, 2011, at 7:33 , Guillaume Chorn wrote: > Hi, > > The location of my CSS file is > /Users/guillaumechorn/Documents/project/myapp/static/stylesheet.css. Sorry, > I may have missed you asking for this earlier. > > Here is my views.py: > > http://dpaste.com/660653/ > > When I hardcode the disk location of the CSS file in the template (like so: > <link rel="stylesheet" > href="/Users/guillaumechorn/Documents/project/myapp/static/stylesheet.css" > type="text/css" />), the CSS shows up if I open the template file directly > using a browser. But it still doesn't show up when loading up the page on > the development server. > > thanks, > Guillaume > > On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Ivo Brodien <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > looks fine. > > yes, show your views.py > > and you can also hardcode the STATIC_URL in the template to see if the path: > src=“/static/stylesheet.css” works. > > or simply open http://127.0.0.1:8000/static/stylesheet.css in your browser. > > Again: Where is that CSS file on your disk? > > On Nov 23, 2011, at 2:46 , Guillaume Chorn wrote: > >> Sorry, I think I made something confusing. In my original file, I only >> pasted the URL pattern for the site homepage. However, this is not the page >> I'm trying to style (or link to the CSS file). The page I'm trying to link >> to the CSS file is a separate one, which I have previously referred to as >> http://127.0.0.1:8000/view/, but which I will hereafter refer to as >> http://127.0.0.1:8000/items/ (and will now include below). I previously >> used the term "view" to imply a general myapp.views.view, but will hereafter >> refer to it as myapp.views.items. Hope that makes sense. I've used dpaste >> to share my code as suggested. >> >> Here is my settings.py file: >> >> http://dpaste.com/660563/ >> >> Here is the template which I want to style: >> >> http://dpaste.com/660565/ >> >> And here is my urls.py file: >> >> http://dpaste.com/660568/ >> >> Let me know if anything else is needed, such as the views.py file or >> something. >> >> thanks, >> Guillaume >> >> On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Ivo Brodien <[email protected]> wrote: >> In your original post you had the url like this: >> >>> (r'^home/$','myapp.views.homepage'), >> >> than your the url starts with view instead of home so there might be >> something wrong. >> >> just paste these files into somthing like dpaste.com >> >> - settings.py >> - myapp.views.homepage >> - urls.py >> >> cheers >> >> >> On Nov 23, 2011, at 0:29 , Guillaume Chorn wrote: >> >>> Thank you Ivo. Your suggestion makes a lot of sense so I tried it out. >>> Unfortunately, after adding TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS and its associated >>> tuple into the settings.py file, I tried to restart the development server >>> to see if it worked and it didn't. I checked the page source again and >>> it's still looking for /view/stylesheet.css. Am I missing something else? >>> >>> thanks, >>> Guillaume >>> >>> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 10:42 PM, Ivo Brodien <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Finally, I have another question. In my settings.py file, there is >>>> actually no section for TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS. I have noticed in >>>> the documentation >>> >>> yes. >>> >>> put this in there: >>> >>> ("django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth", >>> "django.core.context_processors.debug", >>> "django.core.context_processors.i18n", >>> "django.core.context_processors.media", >>> "django.core.context_processors.static", >>> "django.core.context_processors.tz", >>> "django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages") >>> >>> and try again. >>> >>> What happens in your template is that {{ STATIC_URL }} is empty because the >>> context processor ““django.core.context_processors.static”” did not put the >>> STATIC_URL into the context. so your path to the file becomes: >>> /view/stylesheet.css instead of /static/stylesheet.css >>> >>> You have to put the CSS file in a directory called static as mentioned >>> before. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
