Django template: use of multiple block tags in same base

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I want to make sure I have understood this correctly before I change all my templates. I have a base.html with my overall layout. This has a {% block content %}. Each of my content pages extends "base.html" and is surrounded by the block tag. This works great. My view returns the rendered content page and it's placed nicely in the layout.

Now I have also created a menu bar in menubar.html The menu should be the same for every page except that the color of the selected page/content is different. So it needs to know what content got loaded.

My base.html now also has a {% block menubar %}

I am about to open up all of my content templates and add the following to them:

{% include "menubar.html" %}

Then, in menubar.html, I will surround the menu with block tags. Is that correct? I thought the point of the block system was that somehow things could be controlled more from the base.html, without changing all my templates.

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:09:09Z

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I'd suggest just putting {% include "menubar.html" %} into base.html.

To highlight the current page in your menu use something like this: https://stackoverflow.com/a/477719/473285

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answered Oct 15, 2012 at 16:13

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user984003 Over a year ago

looking at it now. looks good except I can even get {{ request.path }} to show- And using context_instance=RequestContext(request). Will post a question on that.

user984003 Over a year ago

This worked great. I followed the referenced article 110j.wordpress.com/2009/01/25/… and the article that it referenced. I did have to give the naming parameter as name="home_url_name" for it to work.

esauro · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-15 16:17:52Z

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If your content templates extends from base.html, and the {% block menubar %} is outside the {% block content %} you don't need to modify all the contents templates, just the base.html

answered Oct 15, 2012 at 16:17

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user984003 Over a year ago

But how does the menu get loaded? I return my rendered content page. This extends base.html. But how does base know what to put inside the menu tag?

esauro Over a year ago

Inside the {% block menubar %} you put the {% include "menubar.html" %}, so the template system will put inside that block whatever inside the menubar.html file. Thus if you need some context information in order to render your menu, you could simply pass it in context dict to the render_to_template function for instance.

user984003 Over a year ago

Then you don't even need the block. Just use include. My issue then is passing the context info. Looking into answer below, thanks!

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