Passing variables to CSS file in Django

Question

Is it possible to pass variables in CSS files, like in HTML file. Example:

In views.py:

def home(request):
    bgcolor = "#999"
    ...
    ...

In the CSS file:

body {
    background-color : {{bgcolor}};
}

If yes, can you please guide me how to achieve this? I would really appreciate. Thank you!

Edit: Ok, my bad. What I meant was, how do let users customize their page if they wanted to? I suppose I could have done this without using external stylesheet, but I think CSS is served fastest if it's static and on a CDN and not using a template and CPU resources to render. Please guide me if there's a way to achive this.

Answer 1

This is a old question but I thought I'd help others as I also wanted to do this and I found a solution.

Instead of using a normal link tag specifying your stylesheet, use style tags and include your css file inline.

<style>{% include 'my.css' %}</style>

Then you can put jinja code in your css file and it will render the variables. Useful if you want to allow users to customize colors etc.