title: html does not load local css file
body: <p>I looked over some of the same questions on stack overflow and tried all the best answers. None of them worked.</p>
  
  <p>I am learning html5 with CSS stylesheet. I looked over a website tutorial of building a web page with login form by flask.
  So it has this base.html file which has some code links to a css file:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;head&gt;
    &lt;meta charset="utf-8"&gt;
    &lt;meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge"&gt;
    &lt;meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"&gt;
    &lt;title&gt;RELAX AND WORKOUT&lt;/title&gt;
    &lt;link rel="stylesheet" href="bulma.css" /&gt;
  &lt;/head&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Originally, followed by 'href' was a http link and it worked. But I downloaded the same css file and put it in the same folder as the base.html file so I can play with this css file.</p>
  
  <p>They are both at <code>./project/templates/the_file</code></p>
  
  <p>This is the link to download the css file: <a href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/bulma/0.7.4/css/bulma.css" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/bulma/0.7.4/css/bulma.css</a></p>
  
  <p>It was also originally the tutorial author put after 'href='. But when I changed it to my local file name 'bulma.css', it does not load the stylesheet at all.
  I also tried absolute path and relative path. Neither of them worked.
  I'm running it on Windows 10. Using Python 3.7 and flask.
  So in my case, how do I make the html load this local css file?</p>
  
  <p>Edit:</p>
  
  <p>Ok, I made it work eventually.</p>
  
  <p>I made a new folder called "static" and put the css file inside it. Then I changed the path to this: </p>
  
  <p><code>&lt;link rel="stylesheet" href="../static/bulma.css" /&gt;</code>.</p>
  
  <p>Does it mean flask treats the "templates" folder as a special folder only for html templates, it does not recognize other file formats?</p>
  
  <p>But I saw <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26872201/linking-css-file-on-a-html-document-in-same-directory-on-my-hard-disk-windows">a question</a> which the person put his css file in the same directory. The answer is to just add a dot and it worked. That was why I put it with all the other html templates in my templates folder. But it never worked in my case.</p>