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guettli
guettli

Reputation: 27796

Django: reusable templates: extend from base.html

What is the most reusable way for the "extends" method in django templates?

I have seen this very often:

{% extends 'base.html' %}

Unfortunately this does not work for me. The ordering of the template loader loads a template from a different app first.

I have a default django project and application created from scratch with Django1.8.

What should I do:

Upvotes: 0

Views: 400

Answers (1)

Burhan Khalid
Burhan Khalid

Reputation: 174614

The easy way to solve this problem is to namespace your templates. Create an application and inside the application directory (where you have the default views.py) create a templates directory, and inside that directory create a subdirectory which is the name of the application.

Imagine you have a project myproj and an app called registration, then you would have:

.
├── manage.py
├── myproj
│   ├── __init__.py
│   ├── settings.py
│   ├── urls.py
│   └── wsgi.py
└── registration
    ├── admin.py
    ├── __init__.py
    ├── migrations
    │   └── __init__.py
    ├── models.py
    ├── templates
    │   └── registration
    │       └── base.html
    ├── tests.py
    └── views.py

Now even if you have another application with a template called base.html, you can always load the specific template you need with {% extends 'registration/base.html' %}

Upvotes: 1

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