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user1199438
user1199438

Reputation: 6087

Including django templates in other templates so they are actually parsed

Django's inheritance structure is driving me crazy.

I'm creating several skins, each with a two-column and three-column layout:

site1
  - two_cols.html
  - three_cols.html
site2
  - two_cols.html
  - three_cols.html

The three_cols.html layout extends two_cols.html and just adds an extra column to the layout with an extra django-cms placeholder for content.

For both site1 and site2 almost the only change at this stage is a different stylesheet name, so I want to move two_cols.html and three_cols.html into a 'common' directory, and just have the ones under site1 and site2 extend them.

So:

I've done this for the two col layout and it works fine. However, for the three_col layout in site1 for example, I want to extend site1/two_cols.html (which sets the CSS path) and then just include the contents of 'common/three_cols.html' (which defines the extra column).

This doesn't work for me because the three_cols.html contains django-cms placeholder tags which, because I'm only 'including' the template, apparently are not parsed, but just evaluated.

To say this another way, I want some settings in site1/two_cols.html to be able to be used from site1/three_cols.html where they both extends different templates.

Summary

My issue is how can I include something so it's as if it was in the parent template (which the django docs say include won't do: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/ref/templates/builtins/#include)?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 271

Answers (1)

Daniel Roseman
Daniel Roseman

Reputation: 599610

Why can't you do this with normal extends? three_cols can extend two_cols and add another column inside the main block, using block.super to render the original two columns.

Upvotes: 1

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