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6. Django templates
We can edit the view we just created so that it uses a template. Note we commented out the html created previously and have added the template below it.
def simple_view(request):
addresses = Address.object.all()
first_address = address[0]
resident_name = str(first_address.resident)
# html = "Name: "+resident_name+"Address:"+
first_address.street_name+""
return render(request, 'helloworld/simple.html', {'address':first_address, 'name': resident_name})
We’re using a template called simple.html. We haven’t created this yet.
By convention the Django app will keep the templates in a directory called templates – this can be changed in the settings.
We’ve previously created the helloworld subdirectory in templates so we just need to go here and add a file called simple.html.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<h1>Simple Title For This Page</h1>
<p>
Name: {{ name }}<br />
Address: {{ address }}
</p>
</body>
</html>
We can use code instead of variable names, eg
Name: {% name.upper() %}
We can also do this:
templates/helloworld/base.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta name="keywords" content="HTML,Django,Tutorial">
</head>
<body>
{% block content %}
{% endblock %}
</body>
</html>
templates/helloworld/simple.py
{% extends 'base.html' %}
{% block content %}
<h1>Simple Title For This Page</h1>
<p>
Name: {{ name }}<br />
Address: {{ address }}
</p>
{% endblock %}
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Advanced Web Development index
- 38. Writing API tests
- 37. Testing in Django
- 36. Class-based views in the Django REST framework
- 35. Building a RESTful web service in Django
- 34. Introduction to CRUD, REST and APIs
- 33. Refactoring with generic views in Django
- 32. Django validators
- 31. Django forms (2) – using the ModelForm class
- 30. Django forms (1)
- 29. JavaScript basics
- 28. Adding CSS to the template
- 27. Django templating
- 26. Deleting and updating records
- 25. Joins, filters and chaining commands
- 24. Using the ORM in views.py
- 23. Adding to the database by writing a script
- 22. Adding to the database with Django Admin
- 21. Migrations
- 20. ORM – work through example
- 19. An introduction to the Object-Relational Mapper
- 18. Altering the database
- 17. SQL functions and summaries
- 16. SQL Query performance
- 15. Queries and table joins in SQL
- 14. Inserts and queries in SQL
- 13. Good practice in relational database design
- 12. Limitations to database modelling
- 11. Building a database using SQL
- 10. Introduction to PostgreSQL
- 9. How to start writing a new application in Django
- 8. Building a lightweight project
- 7. Django URLs
- 6. Django templates
- 5. Django models
- 4. Django views
- 3. Creating a new hello app
- 2. Creating a new virtual environment
- 1. Setting up Django
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