Django Get absolute url for static files

Question

In Django, when I use:

{{ request.build_absolute_uri }}{% static \"img/myimage.jpg\" %}

It produces: \'http://myurl.com//static/img/myimage

Answer 1

build_absolute_uri takes the location as an argument which handles the double slash problem. Unfortunately you cannot pass arguments via the django template language.

You will need to build a custom template tag or filter which accepts an argument to the build_absolute_uri function.

One of the many reasons I prefer Jinja as I can just do this:

{{ request.build_absolute_uri(static('img/foo.png')) }}