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

In my case to reference files inside css and js folders like this:

I had to place the folders in webapp folder. I have the following folder structure:

Myapp

-src
     -main
           -java
           -resources
                    -static
                    -templates
           -webapp
                  -resources
                  -WEB-INF

I mean if i had placed the css and js folders in resources folder (under main) it would have been:

If i place them in static folder (under resources) it doesn't work.