<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/static/bootstrap.css">
<title>Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
<form method = "post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<h2>Choose your State</h2>
{{form.state_variable}}
<h2>Choose your District</h2>
{{form.district_variable}}
<br>
<br>
<br>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit"/>
</div>
</body>
</html>
I'm new to creating web apps through flask and html. I created a very simple page that takes input from the html file and displays a table in another html. My python flask and html both are running fine. I wanted to add some bootstrap.css, so tried adding the div class=container to the html page using visual studio code. I previewed it with the 'Live Server' in visual studio code and it works fine. However, when I start the local server to work with flask, at that time bootstrap css is not getting applied. What I see is a barebone html page without styles being applied. All functionalities works fine though. Any help will be much appreciated. Thanks.
Error Message: "GET /css/bootstrap.css HTTP/1.1" 404 -
Note: I'm not sure why the code is looking for "/css/" folder while I have clearly put my css file in the static folder and referenced it
You need to replace href="/static/bootstrap.css" and replace it with:
href="{{url_for('static', filename='bootstrap.css')}}"
You need to do that, because you write in flask like this. Normally you would do it like you did it. Feel free to tell me any errors
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{{url_for('static', filename='bootstrap.css')}}">
<title>Document</title>
</head>
the above change to href as suggested by the user 'malware' helped resolve this.
I also commented the below line in my python code as that doesn't seem to be the problem
#app._static_folder = '<path>'