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Kayla Johnson
Kayla Johnson
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Posted by Kayla Johnson
Kayla Johnson
1,798 Points

How to pull from the app directory, not the main directory

I have an app, locations, where I am editing the admin.py. I want to add a js and a css file located in the static directory of my app.

I use:

class Media:
    js = ('js/main.js',)
    css = {
        'all': ('css/styles.css',)
    }

and it's trying to pull from the static directory in the overall project directory. I try changing the path to something like 'locations/static/js/main.js' and it is a 404.

1 Answer

Kenneth Love
STAFF
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Kenneth Love
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest Teacher

It'll look in the app directory first and fall back to the project-level directory second.

By default, assuming an app named locations, Django would look for <project>/locations/static/locations/css/styles.css before falling back to whatever you had set up for STATICFILES_DIRS.