How to add static files using Spring MVC and Thymeleaf

Question

My question is how to add static files like CSS and image files so that I can use them. I am using Spring MVC and Thymeleaf. I looked at various posts on this subject, but they

Answer 1

This is how I made it work. Only one line suffice.

registry.addResourceHandler("/static/**").addResourceLocations("/static/");

And

If it keeps failing, try to move your "templates" folder into the resources folder as a subfolder.