Where to put static files such as CSS in a spring-boot project?

Question

In my current spring-boot project, my views have this line:

to reference a static css

Answer 1

I use Spring-Boot 2.0.2

I still keep @EnableWebMvc annotation in my webConfig.java and override addResourceHandlers() method to help browser reaches css and javascript files through http request.

This is the webapp directory's structure

.

webConfig.java

@Configuration
@EnableWebMvc
@ComponentScan(basePackages = "example.com")
public class WebConfig implements WebMvcConfigurer {

    // =======================================
    // =             Bean Config             =
    // =======================================

    @Bean
    public InternalResourceViewResolver getInternalResourceViewResolver(){
        InternalResourceViewResolver resolver = new InternalResourceViewResolver();
        resolver.setPrefix("/WEB-INF/jsp/");
        resolver.setSuffix(".jsp");

        return resolver;
    }


    // =======================================
    // =          Override Methods           =
    // =======================================

    @Override
    public void addResourceHandlers(ResourceHandlerRegistry registry) {
        registry.addResourceHandler("/pdfs/**")
                .addResourceLocations("/WEB-INF/pdfs/");

        registry.addResourceHandler("/css/**")
                .addResourceLocations("/WEB-INF/css/");

        registry.addResourceHandler("/js/**")
                .addResourceLocations("/WEB-INF/js/");
    }
}

index.jsp head tag:

hope it helps you.