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vmonteco
vmonteco

Reputation: 15443

base.html contains {% extends 'base.html' %}?

I'm trying the django-cms tutorial, There is something I don't understand at the end of this part :

I have to add a template at /mysite/templates/polls/base.html. But this file has to begin with {% extends 'base.html' %}. Is that normal? Is the file this line refers to an other base.html file? The one in the parent directory perhaps? I'm not sure at all.

Thank you for your help.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 13140

Answers (1)

markwalker_
markwalker_

Reputation: 12869

Extending from a base.html like that would suggest, like I do, that you have a base.html file at the root template directory of your project to handle the core markup;

{% load cms_tags menu_tags sekizai_tags cache i18n %}
{% load static from staticfiles %}
<head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">

    {% block head %}{% endblock head %}
    <title>
    <script type="text/javascript"
        src="{% static 'project/external/jquery-1.11.2.min.js' %}"></script>

    {% render_block "css" %}
    {% render_block "js" %}

    {% block styles %}{% endblock styles %}
    {% block scripts %}{% endblock scripts %}

</head>
<body>
    {% cms_toolbar %}

    {% block content %}
    {% endblock content %}

    {% block footer-scripts %}{% endblock footer-scripts %}
</body>
</html>

That way, when you setup templates in your apps you can start with a base.html for that app which may extend the base blocks for the head tag or elsewhere.

Usually I have a setup similar to myproj/templates and then app templates like myproj/project/templates and myproj/app1/templates. That first templates dir sits next to manage.py and I use the project dir to hold settings & any templates specific to that project like types of CMS page; article.html etc.

You don't have to extend base.html but if you don't, then you need to recreate all that markup again so by using this template model you'll be able to limit repeated markup.

Upvotes: 5

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