Spring Boot Thymeleaf not recognizing CSS file

The problem is that a thymeleaf does not find my css file

Project structure
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I am able to access css file with given url http://localhost:8080/styles.css

I use spring boot 3.1.1

I have tried

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as well as

Template does show correctly but css is not applied

>Solution :

This is the correct syntax in your case:

<link th:href="@{/styles.css}" rel="stylesheet" />