Since you are using django’s template language you can ONLY do this within your template between <script>
tags. In other words if you wished to use your pic2.src
javascript variable in an external script then you would need to declare it between <script>
tags like so
<script>
var pic2.src = "https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27932983/{% static"photos/1.jpg" %}"
</script>
And then you could access it in your external scripts that you might load like this:
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27932983/{% static"js/my_external_script.js" %}"></script>
Regarding your question concerning load static
and load staticfiles
there is little distinction. Both act as a joiner for the STATIC_URL
in your settings.py
and the actual path to the file itself so both should work for your case. See here and here for more info.