On Tuesday, 9 August 2011 08:24:20 UTC+1, Rodney Topor wrote:
>
> I tried using a style sheet served as a static file with the tutorial
> project. In settings.py, I defined STATIC_URL = /static/ and
> STATICFILES_DIRS = ('/path/to/project/static/',). Then I defined a
> base_html template with a line in the HEAD of the form
>
> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{{ STATIC_URL }}
> style.css" />
>
> and put style.css in directory /static/. Finally, I defined
> index.html, detail.html, etc., as given in the tutorial to each extend
> base.html.
>
> Everything works perfectly, except that only one template
> (detail.html) correctly processes the {{ STATIC_URL }} value to find /
> static/style.css. In every other template, {{ STATIC_URL }} evaluates
> to the empty string, giving just style.css, which does not exist of
> course.
>
> Every template extends the single base template in the same way. So
> why does {{ STATIC_URL }} work for some templates and not others?
>
> Rodney
Because you need to use a RequestContext to render the template.
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