Not sure if this is something worth posting here or not, but I was encouraged to put it up for discussion at least by somebody that knows more than me :)
I was recently wanting to display user-uploaded media from a template (an avatar pic in my navbar), and I couldn't really work out the "right" way of doing this from the docs. Docs for using static files in templates are comprehensive - less so for media files from what I can tell. A few SO questions, a bit of trial and error, and finding the https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.1/ref/templates/builtins/#get-media-prefix docs led me to the solution where I have <body data-media-url="{% get_media_prefix as MEDIA_PREFIX %}"> in my base template, then <img src="{{ MEDIA_PREFIX }}{{ user.avatar }}" in my navbar. This works nicely, though I still don't really know if it would be regarded as the "right" way to do it or if I now have a somewhat "hacky" solution :) On the page https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.1/howto/static-files/ it talks about deploying static and media files in prod, and gives an example of how to use static files in a template, but no example for media files. It strikes me that it would be handy if this page gave an example of how to include a media file in a template. Hope I'm not wasting people's time here! Cheers Mike -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/d74329ab-1781-4769-be1c-5448431acab9n%40googlegroups.com.
