Load a css file in a specific view file

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Hi,

I’ve created a view file, this view has some special styles.

I’ve created a custom css file in the assets folder and I want to load the css file only in thius specific view file. Is it possible to achieve this? I don’t want this css to be loaded in entire website.

Thanks

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Can’t views have references to stylesheet assets? Just add something like this in the view:

<%= stylesheet_link_tag "application" %>
3

Simpliest way, add this in your application.html.erb layout

<head>
  <!-- other tags -->
  <%= yield :head %>
</head>

in your desired view, add this

<% content_for :head do %>
  <%= stylesheet_link_tag 'special_css' %>
<% end %>
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One pitfall: if your stylesheet is app/assets/stylesheets, it’ll get picked up twice (once from the global stylesheet_link_tag :app, and then again from this one page).

The only workaround I found is to shove the file in some other location outside app/assets, but IDK if that’s the correct approach.