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zidianqs
zidianqs

Reputation: 117

How do you escape tags in django templates?

As I know if I put

{{ var_name }}

in django template, it will be parsed as an variable. What should I write if I want the string "{{ var_name }}" displayed in HTML file (not {{ var_name }})?

I'm not quite sure how to describe this question, so I have no idea what key word to search in Google. Thank you.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1738

Answers (3)

maligree
maligree

Reputation: 6147

What you want to do is called escaping.

You can substitute the brackets like this:

{ instead of {

} instead of }

So, in your HTML code, {{ var_name }} will output {{ var_name }}.

And there's also the boring way: templatetag tag.

Upvotes: 2

Nate
Nate

Reputation: 12819

If I understand you correctly, you want to output text including literal braces.

This is done using the templatetag template tag.

For example, in your case, you will want to put:

{% templatetag openvariable %} var_name {% templatetag closevariable %}

Upvotes: 4

Constantinius
Constantinius

Reputation: 35039

If you want to use var_name as a value for (for example) an attribute you do have to use the parentheses. For example:

{% for key, value in somedict %}
    <input type="hidden" name="{{ key }}" value="{{value}}" />
{% endfor %}

Upvotes: 0

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