Django Server Static files

Question

I am trying to use the following code to link to the correct image based on the rating. However the server interprets as http://127.0.0.1:8000/static/images/rating-%7B%7Bfeedback.reception_courtesy%7D%7D.gif instead of http://127.0.0.1:8000/static/images/rating-1.gif

<img src="{% static 'images/rating-{{feedback.reception_courtesy}}.gif' %}" alt="My image"/>

I am not sure where I am running wrong here.

Answer 1

The problem is that variables are not interpolated within the url parameter of {% static 'url' %} , so {{feedback.reception_courtesy}} is taken literally.

Do it like this:

<img src="{% static 'images' %}/rating-{{feedback.reception_courtesy}}.gif" alt="My image"/>

This works fine because the variable is now outside of {% static ... %} , and because {% static 'one/two/three' %} is equivalent to {% static 'one/two' %}/three