[web-devel] Including a static css file

[Michael Snoyman]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 5:48 AM, Mark Bradley <barkmadley at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Michael Snoyman <michael at snoyman.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 10:46 PM, Anakreon Mentis
>> <anakreonmejdi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I am experimenting with yesod and am new to it.
>>> I changed the default-layout.hamlet file of a project created by yesod init.
>>> The modification consists of the following line
>>>        <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="@{StaticR css/base.css}">
>>>
>>> I get an error message
>>> " (line 4, column 48):
>>> unexpected 'h'
>>> expecting end of input, "\n", "\r\n" or ">"
>>>
>>> The file static/css/base.css does exist.
>>
>> Try replacing "css/base.css" with "css_base_css". The file
>> StaticFiles.hs calls creates identifiers for every file in the static
>> folder, but it has to follow the rules of Haskell naming. Basically,
>> more characters get replaced with an underscore.
>
> does it uniquely identify files?
>
> static/css.base.css
> static/css/base.css

I believe that will cause a compiler error.

Michael