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Mohamed
Mohamed

Reputation: 75

Adding Django to already made HTML/css site

Hey guys so I been looking into making a site and was going to learn php for it but after a lot of research I saw how I can use Django for the backend of the site so I already started creating a site with HTML/css/js before I decide to use Django. Is there any possible way you can connect HTML/css to Django or do I need to re write everything in Django. I did look at some tutorials and saw how all the HTML was in django and I also did try looking it up too but couldn't find the right answer I'm looking for. If anyone could tell me I'll be very appreciated!! Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1760

Answers (2)

Vassily
Vassily

Reputation: 5428

All you need to move from your old project to new one created with django-admin startproject are:

  1. HTML templates adapted to django template language configured as described here: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/topics/templates/
  2. css/img/js files to static folder

After it you need to replace old href attributes to something like <a href="{% url "Index" %}"> and insert correct paths (includes static url) of css/img/js files to hmtl

Upvotes: 1

Laraconda
Laraconda

Reputation: 707

You can connect it. Django is a backend framework, all it does in the frontend is print data.

Read about templates in Django. Templates are basically html files with dynamic content.

Take the template my_template.html:

My first name is {{ first_name }}.

You render it like this:

from django.template.loader import render_to_string
rendered = render_to_string('my_template.html', {'first_name': 'Cesar'})

It will output:

My first name is Cesar.

Make sure to read the whole intro tutorial to Django.

Note: There are many ways to use a template, this was just a little example.

Upvotes: 3

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