Django TemplateSyntaxError - 'staticfiles' is not a registered tag library

If you have any of the following tags in your template:

{% load staticfiles %}
{% load static from staticfiles %}
{% load admin_static %}

Then replace it with:

{% load static %}

You have to make this change because {% load staticfiles %} and {% load admin_static %} were deprecated in Django 2.1, and removed in Django 3.0.

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Register staticfiles to tag library

staticfiles has been change to static

You can register with the fallowing code in your settings.py

Add this code in your TEMPLATES settings:

TEMPLATES = [
    {
        'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
        'DIRS': [],
        'APP_DIRS': True,
        'OPTIONS': {
            'context_processors': [
                'django.template.context_processors.debug',
                'django.template.context_processors.request',
                'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
                'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
            ],
            'libraries' : {
                'staticfiles': 'django.templatetags.static', 
            }
        },
    },
]

Note the you can find libraries witch you don't have it

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Try {% load static %} instead of {% load staticfiles %}

If effect of CSS or any other files doesn't reflect in your template then also write following lines in the end of your settings.py file

STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATICFILES_DIRS = [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static')]
VENV_PATH = os.path.dirname(BASE_DIR)
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(VENV_PATH, 'static_root')

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This worked for me using django 3.1.4.

{% load static %}
<link rel"stylesheet" href = "{% static 'style.css' %}">

its working for me

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this worked with me replace {% load static from staticfiles %} with {% load static %}

where :

go to your virtual environment "venv" /lip/python3.X/site-packages/leaflet/templates/leaflet/admin/widget.html and all of the .HTML files in the directory

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My issue was in step 4 from documentation here: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.2/howto/static-files/

"4. Store your static files in a folder called static in your app. For example my_app/static/my_app/example.jpg."

Once I had corrected my directory structure to match everything worked.

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