---
title: "Custom pages and templates - Datasette documentation"
description: "!https://docs.datasette.io/en/stable/custom_templates.html#serving-static-files"
date: 2023-08-23
published: true
tags:
  - thought
template: link
---


<div class="embed-card embed-card-external">
  <a href="https://docs.datasette.io/en/stable/custom_templates.html#serving-static-files" class="embed-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">
    <div class="embed-card-content">
      <div class="embed-card-title">Custom pages and templates - Datasette documentation</div>
      <div class="embed-card-meta">docs.datasette.io</div>
    </div>
  </a>
</div>


Datasette has its own static server that can host assets such as style sheets.


``` bash
datasette -m metadata.json --static assets:static-files/ 
```