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Michael
Michael

Reputation: 2051

Is it possible to perform Includes with flask?

Say I have a template layout saved in template.html. This template includes a banner, side navigation, content container, and footer. Can I use flask to break up these page elements in such a way that I can have files such as banner.html, sidenavigation.html, etc. and render these different files within template.html?

Upvotes: 62

Views: 59557

Answers (4)

Charles Roth
Charles Roth

Reputation: 1

Think carefully about whether to use inheritance (extends) vs composition (include).

If you have several pages with nearly identical structure, inheritance may be the best choice. But if you are 'planning for change', composition may be more flexible, and only slightly longer.

It's common for folks new to object-orientation to overuse inheritance. See "Uncle Bob" on the question, at https://twitter.com/unclebobmartin/status/1308029538463625219?lang=en

Upvotes: 0

ned
ned

Reputation: 121

Before you start, you need to write these components separately to other html files as pure html. For example, these files shouldn't contain any jinja syntax. After that, according to the documentation, you can easily import them into your template.html file by calling {% include 'filename.html' %} code.

Upvotes: 1

Liyan Chang
Liyan Chang

Reputation: 8051

From: http://jinja.pocoo.org/docs/templates/#include

template.html

{% include 'banner.html' %}
{% include 'sidenavigation.html' %}
{% include 'content.html' %}
{% include 'footer.html' %}

Upvotes: 124

plaes
plaes

Reputation: 32716

By default, Flask uses Jinja2 as its template engine. See Jinja's Template Designer Documentation how it's done.

Upvotes: 2

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