Why are my css changes not being reflected in my browser? [duplicate] - css

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So I am noticing that my css changes are not being reflected. They were originally working when I first created the files but I'm not sure what I did because it's not reflecting changes anymore. I did a hard-reload and cleared the cache but still nothing. Like I can literally delete the css file and my badge which I'm trying to edit is still there... it only goes away once I take it off of base.html directly. So what is going on here? I have a static folder in my app, with a css folder and then my css/notification file. I tried doing collectstatic through terminal but that doesn't do anything. Also, I already have my load static tag in my html. And, my css file is indeed loading when I go to inspect element and the changes are showing up within that file but they are not showing up within my browser. Any idea what's going on here? Nothing I do seems to be working!
ps: Changing STATICFILES_DIR to STATICFILES_DIRS doesn't do anything.
base.html/header
<link rel="stylesheet" href="{% static 'css/notification.css' %}" type="text/css" class = "notification"/>
base.html/body
<a class= text-danger href="{% url 'dating_app:conversations' user.id %}" type="text/css" class="notification">
<span>Inbox</span>
<span class="badge">{% unread_messages request.user %}</span>
</a>
notification.css
.notification {
text-decoration: none;
padding:50;
position: relative;
display: inline-block;
}
.notification .badge {
position: absolute;
top: 50px;
right: -25px;
padding: 20px 20px;
border-radius: 100%;
background: white !important;
color: white;
}
settings.py
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATICFILES_DIR = [
"/DatingAppCustom/dating_app/static",
]
MEDIA_URL = '/media/'
MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'dating_app/media')
settings.py/installed_apps
'django.contrib.staticfiles'
urls project
urlpatterns = [
path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
path('', include('dating_app.urls', namespace= 'dating_app')),
] + static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT) + static(settings.STATIC_URL, document_root=settings.STATIC_ROOT)
**edit/ directory **
.
├── 11_env
│   ├── bin
│   │   ├── __pycache__
│   │   ├── activate
│   │   ├── activate.csh
│   │   ├── activate.fish
│   │   ├── django-admin
│   │   ├── django-admin.py
│   │   ├── easy_install
│   │   ├── easy_install-3.7
│   │   ├── pip
│   │   ├── pip3
│   │   ├── pip3.7
│   │   ├── python -> python3
│   │   ├── python3 -> /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/bin/python3
│   │   └── sqlformat
│   ├── include
│   ├── lib
│   │   └── python3.7
│   └── pyvenv.cfg
├── dating_app
│   ├── __init__.py
│   ├── __pycache__
│   │   ├── __init__.cpython-37.pyc
│   │   ├── admin.cpython-37.pyc
│   │   ├── forms.cpython-37.pyc
│   │   ├── models.cpython-37.pyc
│   │   ├── tests.cpython-37.pyc
│   │   ├── urls.cpython-37.pyc
│   │   └── views.cpython-37.pyc
│   ├── admin.py
│   ├── apps.py
│   ├── chat.html
│   ├── forms.py
│   ├── media
│   │   └── profile_photo
│   ├── migrations
│   │   ├── 0001_initial.py
│   │   ├── 0002_auto_20200410_2231.py
│   │   ├── 0003_auto_20200411_2011.py
│   │   ├── 0004_auto_20200413_1930.py
│   │   ├── 0005_auto_20200413_1946.py
│   │   ├── 0006_auto_20200413_2222.py
│   │   ├── 0007_auto_20200422_1947.py
│   │   ├── 0008_auto_20200425_0039.py
│   │   ├── 0009_auto_20200426_1957.py
│   │   ├── 0010_auto_20200426_2005.py
│   │   ├── 0011_auto_20200426_2005.py
│   │   ├── 0012_auto_20200426_2007.py
│   │   ├── 0013_auto_20200427_1846.py
│   │   ├── 0014_auto_20200503_1947.py
│   │   ├── 0015_auto_20200503_2011.py
│   │   ├── 0016_auto_20200511_0104.py
│   │   ├── __init__.py
│   │   └── __pycache__
│   ├── models.py
│   ├── static
│   │   ├── css
│   │   ├── fonts
│   │   ├── images
│   │   └── js
│   ├── tag.py
│   ├── templates
│   │   └── dating_app
│   ├── templatetags
│   │   ├── __init__.py
│   │   ├── __pycache__
│   │   └── unread_messages_counter.py
│   ├── tests.py
│   ├── urls.py
│   └── views.py
├── dating_project
│   ├── __init__.py
│   ├── __pycache__
│   │   ├── __init__.cpython-37.pyc
│   │   ├── settings.cpython-37.pyc
│   │   ├── urls.cpython-37.pyc
│   │   └── wsgi.cpython-37.pyc
│   ├── asgi.py
│   ├── settings.py
│   ├── urls.py
│   └── wsgi.py
├── db.sqlite3
├── manage.py
├── requirements.txt
└── static
├── admin
│   ├── css
│   ├── fonts
│   ├── img
│   └── js
├── css
│   ├── notification.css
│   └── style.css
└── images
├── cupids_corner_logo.jpg
└── matching_cupid.png

Answer 1

Can you try changing this
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATICFILES_DIR = [
"/DatingAppCustom/dating_app/static",
]
to:
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATICFILES_DIRS = [
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "dating_app/static"),
]
as recommended in the docs