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Java Spring Basics Creating Controllers and Views Adding Static Assets

Arnór Kristmundsson
Arnór Kristmundsson
2,013 Points
Posted by Arnór Kristmundsson
Arnór Kristmundsson
2,013 Points

I can't link the HTML-page the CSS file following Chris' steps

Following Chris' steps, the HTML-page won't link to the CSS. Many on Stackoverflow seem to have similar problem. But I haven't found any better solution than to put the CSS into a style element. Could it be that we have to configure the resource location in the configuration file?

my current solution is 

<!--link rel="stylesheets" type="text/css" href="../static/css/app.css" th:href="@{/css/app.css}"/-->
<style>
@import url(https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Varela+Round);
body {
    font-family: 'varela round', sans-serif;
}
h1 {
    padding: 10px;
    background-color: #896bb3;
    color: #ffffff;
}
</style>

(I moved the CSS file into a subdirectory of its own, like we did with the gif)

Arnór Kristmundsson
Arnór Kristmundsson
2,013 Points
Arnór Kristmundsson
Arnór Kristmundsson
2,013 Points

Haha of course, I should have tried to open the home page in a browser and then I would have seen that the problem had nothing to do with spring. Many thanks!

1 Answer

Matthew Jeng
Matthew Jeng
9,242 Points
Matthew Jeng
Matthew Jeng
9,242 Points

I can't say for sure, but it's possible it's because you have rel="stylesheets" when I believe it should be rel="stylesheet" (singular).