Django - referencing static files in templates
Are you setting the user_stylesheet
context variable in your view? You need to set that before you can pass it onto templates.
I usually just use the {{ static_url }}
tag for doing this stuff, so my code for including bootstrap components would be like.
<link href="{{ STATIC_URL }}bootstrap/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" media="screen">
<script src="{{ STATIC_URL }}bootstrap/js/jquery.js"></script>
Assuming that bootstrap folder is present inside static.
EDIT
For your case, to set user_stylesheet
context variable, you'll need to do something like
dict["user_stylesheet"]= <path to your file>
#add other context variables you might have to
render_to_response(<your template name>, dict, context_instance=RequestContext(request))
It should be
{% load static %}
And then something like
<!-- path -->
<link href="{% static 'bootstrap/css/bootstrap.css' %}" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<!--->
Update for Completeness
Folder Structure
- proj
- app1
- app2
- myproj_public
- static
- css
- bootstrap.css
- js
- xyz.js
- css
Settings File
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(os.path.abspath(
os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT, 'myproj_public', 'static')), '')
STATIC_URL = '/static/'