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Changing the base and stylesheets

Almost every admin page is extended from a common base template named admin/base_site.html. This means that with a little knowledge of HTML and CSS, you can make all sorts of customizations to change the look and feel of the admin interface.

Create a directory called admin in any templates directory. Then, copy the base_site.html file from the Django source directory and alter it according to your needs. If you don't know where the templates are located, just run the following commands within the Django shell:

>>> from os.path import join 
>>> from django.contrib import admin 
>>> print(join(admin.__path__[0], "templates", "admin")) 
/home/arun/env/sbenv/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/templates/admin ...