On Saturday 29 August 2009 04:35:11 pm adelaide_mike wrote: > As a very newbie I am struggling to understand how to use CSS. I read > in > > http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/forms/media/#paths-in-media-def >initions > > that I need to write: > class Media: > css = { > 'screen': ('pretty.css',), > 'print': ('newspaper.css',) > } > > for example. > > Where is this code placed, in which file? Is this what I should do? > Any help or pointers to additional docs for beginners would be > appreciated. > > Mike
That's specifically for forms, that code would go in your forms.py file
normally. The actual css files would be served over your MEDIA_URL.
Media in general would be served over the static files, in your MEDIA_ROOT
direcotry. You'll need to set up django or your httpd to serve static media
over the MEDIA_URL[1]. Once this is done, you can add in css through the
template using the link html tag.
There is a template context processor that allows you to use {{ MEDIA_URL }}
in your templates [2] That will make using the link tag easier. The only
problem with this is that if you use styles with the url() setting, you'll
need to change these manually (search and replace works) in your *.css files
or you can write a manage.py command to update the css files for you, when
switching media servers.
example of MEDIA_ROOT:
app/media
app/media/css
app/media/js
app/media/images
example of using media in a template:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ MEDIA_URL }}css/default.css" type="text/css"
media="screen" charset="utf-8" />
The files that you have defined for your form media should go in a similar
place and the paths are relative to your MEDIA_URL.
The default.css for me is a site wide style sheet and I put most of the styles
in there. I don't use the metaclass Media, unless the form field needs a
specific style.
I hope this helps,
Mike
[1] http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/static-files/
[2]
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/templates/api/#django-core-context-processors-media
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