Background image static file

Using Django Getting Started
1

I am now in part 6 of tge tutorial.
I am using django 4.0.6
My polls/static/polls/style.css includes:

li a{
    color: green;
body {
   background:white url("images/background.gif") no-repat;
}

I reloaded the page of the polls but I only saw the effect of changing the color of the list.
I did not see the background image.

In the warning below the tutorial it says that {% static %} template tag is not available for use in static files which arent generated by django. Hence I should link my static files with relative paths.

I did so, but that didnt help. Any suggestions on how to go around it?

2

Most likely you do not have the full path to the image file in your css. Do you have errors on getting files on the web page? Or try … url(“/images/background.gif”)

3

My bad,
When I looked back at the tutorial, the image extention was png not gif