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I looked over some of the same questions on stack overflow and tried all the best answers. None of them worked.
I am learning html5 with CSS stylesheet. I looked over a website tutorial of building a web page with login form by flask. So it has this base.html file which has some code links to a css file:
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title>RELAX AND WORKOUT</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="bulma.css" />
</head>
Originally, followed by 'href' was a http link and it worked. But I downloaded the same css file and put it in the same folder as the base.html file so I can play with this css file.
They are both at ./project/templates/the_file
This is the link to download the css file: https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/bulma/0.7.4/css/bulma.css
It was also originally the tutorial author put after 'href='. But when I changed it to my local file name 'bulma.css', it does not load the stylesheet at all. I also tried absolute path and relative path. Neither of them worked. I'm running it on Windows 10. Using Python 3.7 and flask. So in my case, how do I make the html load this local css file?
Edit:
Ok, I made it work eventually.
I made a new folder called "static" and put the css file inside it. Then I changed the path to this:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="../static/bulma.css" />.
Does it mean flask treats the "templates" folder as a special folder only for html templates, it does not recognize other file formats?
But I saw a question which the person put his css file in the same directory. The answer is to just add a dot and it worked. That was why I put it with all the other html templates in my templates folder. But it never worked in my case.
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asked Jun 07 '26 02:06
From flask docs:
Flask automatically adds a static view that takes a path relative to the flaskr/staticdirectory and serves it. The base.htmltemplate already has a link to the style.cssfile:
{{ url_for('static', filename='style.css') }}
You need to create a folder called static inside your flask app directory with your static files inside, ex.: CSS, images, etc.
In your html code use:
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" href= {{ url_for('static', filename='bulma.css') }}>
</head>
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