Using CSS in Laravel views?
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I've just began learning Laravel, and can do the basics of a controller and routing.
My OS is Mac OS X Lion, and it's on a MAMP server.
My code from routes.php:
Route::get('/', function() {
return View::make('home.index');
});
Route::get('businesses', function() {
return View::make('businesses.index');
});
Route::get('testing', function() {
return View::make('testing.index');
});
Route::get('hello', function() {
return "<h3>Hello world!</H3>";
});
That works, the views display perfectly, ''however'' what I want to try and do is include CSS within the views, I tried adding in a link to a stylesheet within the directory but the page displayed it as the default browser font even though the css was in the HTML!
This is index.php from businesses within the views folder:
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="mystyle.css">
</head>
<p>Business is a varied term. My content here.
I tried using the Blade template engine in my other views folder (testing) to display CSS but again the CSS did not show despite it being in the testing folder!
How can I overcome this problem, and get better - as I'm slowly learning this framework.
Php Solutions
Solution 1 - Php
Put your assets in the public folder; e.g.:
public/css
public/images
public/fonts
public/js
And then, to access them using Laravel, use:
{{ HTML::script('js/scrollTo.js'); }}
{{ HTML::style('css/css.css'); }}
Or:
{{ URL::asset('js/scrollTo.js'); }}
{{ URL::asset('css/css.css'); }}
This syntax will automatically generate the correct path (e.g., `public/js/scrollTo.js').
Solution 2 - Php
your css file belongs into the public folder or a subfolder of it.
f.e if you put your css in
public/css/common.css
you would use
HTML::style('css/common.css');
In your blade view...
Or you could also use the Asset class http://laravel.com/docs/views/assets...
Solution 3 - Php
You can also write a simple link tag as you normaly would and then on the href attr use:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php echo asset('css/common.css')?>" type="text/css">
of course you need to put your css file under public/css
Solution 4 - Php
We can do this by the following way.
<link href="{{ asset('/css/style.css') }}" rel="stylesheet">
{{ HTML::style('css/style.css', array('media' => 'print')) }}
It will search the style file in the public folder of Laravel and then will render it.
Solution 5 - Php
Like Ahmad Sharif mentioned, you can link stylesheet over http
<link href="{{ asset('/css/style.css') }}" rel="stylesheet">
but if you are using https then the request will be blocked and a mixed content error will come, to use it over https use secure_asset like
<link href="{{ secure_asset('/css/style.css') }}" rel="stylesheet">
Solution 6 - Php
Since Laravel 5 the HTML class is not included by default anymore.
> If you're using Form or HTML helpers, you will see an error stating class 'Form' not found or class 'Html' not found. The Form and HTML helpers have been deprecated in Laravel 5.0; however, there are community-driven replacements such as those maintained by the Laravel Collective.
You can make use of the following line to include your CSS or JS files:
<link href="{{ URL::asset('css/base.css') }}" rel="stylesheet">
<link href="{{ URL::asset('js/project.js') }}" rel="script">
Solution 7 - Php
Update for laravel 5.4 ----
All answers have have used the HTML class for laravel but I guess it has been depreciated now in laravel 5.4, so Put your css and js files in public->css/js And reference them in your html using
<link href="css/css.common.css" rel="stylesheet" >
Solution 8 - Php
To my opinion the best option to route to css & js use the following code:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{{ URL::to('route/to/css') }}">
So if you have css file called main.css inside of css folder in public folder it should be the following:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{{ URL::to('css/main.css') }}">
Solution 9 - Php
You can simply put all the files in its specified folder in public like
public/css
public/js
public/images
Then just call the files as in normal html like
<link href="css/file.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
It works just fine in any version of Laravel
Solution 10 - Php
That is not possible bro, Laravel assumes everything is in public folder.
So my suggestion is:
- Go to the public folder.
- Create a folder, preferably named css.
- Create the folder for the respective views to make things organized.
- Put the respective css inside of those folders, that would be easier for you.
Or
If you really insist to put css inside of views folder, you could try creating Symlink (you're mac so it's ok, but for windows, this will only work for Vista, Server 2008 or greater) from your css folder directory to the public folder and you can use {{HTML::style('your_view_folder/myStyle.css')}} inside of your view files, here's a code for your convenience, in the code you posted, put these before the return View::make():
$css_file = 'myStyle.css';
$folder_name = 'your_view_folder';
$view_path = app_path() . '/views/' . $folder_name . '/' . $css_file;
$public_css_path = public_path() . '/' . $folder_name;
if(file_exists($public_css_path)) exec('rm -rf ' . $public_css_path);
exec('mkdir ' . $public_css_path);
exec('ln -s ' . $view_path .' ' . $public_css_path . '/' . $css_file);
If you really want to try doing your idea, try this:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php echo app_path() . 'views/your_view_folder/myStyle.css'?>" type="text/css">
But it won't work even if the file directory is correct because Laravel won't do that for security purposes, Laravel loves you that much.
Solution 11 - Php
put your css File in public folder . (public/css/bootstrap-responsive.css)
and <link href="./css/bootstrap-responsive.css" rel="stylesheet">
Solution 12 - Php
Copy the css or js file that you want to include, to public folder or you may want to store those in public/css or public/js folders.
Eg. you are using style.css file from css folder in public directory then you can use
<link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ url() }}./css/style.css" type="text/css"/>
But in Laravel 5.2 you will have to use
<link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ url('/') }}./css/style.css" type="text/css"/>
and if you want to include javascript files from public/js folder, it's fairly simple too
<script src="{{ url() }}./js/jquery.min.js"></script>
and in Laravel 5.2 you wll have to use
<script src="{{ url('/') }}./js/jquery.min.js"></script>
the function url() is a laravel helper function which will generate fully qualified URL to given path.
Solution 13 - Php
put your css in public folder, then
add this in you blade file
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{{ asset('mystyle.css') }}">
Solution 14 - Php
Use {!! in new laravel
{!! asset('js/app.min.js') !!}
<script type="text/javascript" src="{!! asset('js/app.min.js') !!}"></script>
Solution 15 - Php
For Laravel 5.4 and if you are using mix helper, use
<link href="{{ mix('/css/app.css') }}" rel="stylesheet">
<script src="{{ mix('/js/app.js') }}"></script>
Solution 16 - Php
Put them in public folder and call it in the view with something like href="{{ asset('public/css/style.css') }}". Note that the public should be included when you call the assets.
Solution 17 - Php
For those who need to keep js/css out of public folder for whatever reasons, in modern Laravel you can use sub-views. Say your views structure is
views
view1.blade.php
view1-css.blade.php
view1-js1.blade.php
view1-js2.blade.php
in view1 add
@include('view1-css')
@include('view1-js1')
@include('view1-js2')
in views-js.blade.php files wrap your js code in <script> tag
in views-css.blade.php wrap your styles in <style> tag
That will tell Laravel, and your code editor, that those are in fact js and css files. You can do the same with additional HTML, SVGs and other stuff that is browser-renderable