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diff --git a/docs/intro/tutorial06.txt b/docs/intro/tutorial06.txt index e8b1d02764..91a0a10f24 100644 --- a/docs/intro/tutorial06.txt +++ b/docs/intro/tutorial06.txt @@ -11,11 +11,10 @@ to serve additional files — such as images, JavaScript, or CSS — necessary t render the complete web page. In Django, we refer to these files as "static files". -For small projects, this isn't a big deal, because you can just keep the -static files somewhere your web server can find it. However, in bigger -projects -- especially those comprised of multiple apps -- dealing with the -multiple sets of static files provided by each application starts to get -tricky. +For small projects, this isn't a big deal, because you can keep the static +files somewhere your web server can find it. However, in bigger projects -- +especially those comprised of multiple apps -- dealing with the multiple sets +of static files provided by each application starts to get tricky. That's what ``django.contrib.staticfiles`` is for: it collects static files from each of your applications (and any other places you specify) into a @@ -39,8 +38,8 @@ Within the ``static`` directory you have just created, create another directory called ``polls`` and within that create a file called ``style.css``. In other words, your stylesheet should be at ``polls/static/polls/style.css``. Because of how the ``AppDirectoriesFinder`` staticfile finder works, you can refer to -this static file in Django simply as ``polls/style.css``, similar to how you -reference the path for templates. +this static file in Django as ``polls/style.css``, similar to how you reference +the path for templates. .. admonition:: Static file namespacing @@ -50,8 +49,8 @@ reference the path for templates. first static file it finds whose name matches, and if you had a static file with the same name in a *different* application, Django would be unable to distinguish between them. We need to be able to point Django at the right - one, and the easiest way to ensure this is by *namespacing* them. That is, - by putting those static files inside *another* directory named for the + one, and the best way to ensure this is by *namespacing* them. That is, by + putting those static files inside *another* directory named for the application itself. Put the following code in that stylesheet (``polls/static/polls/style.css``): |