Template Inheritance in Django (aka The Django equivalent of a Rails layout)

by David Orkin on Oct.06, 2009,under Python, Django, Ruby on Rails

Whew, I was worried there for a second. Coming for the rails world, Im very familar with layouts and partial templates, something that I thought was completely missing from Django but I am so happy to be proven wrong. Thankfully there is a rather simple way to do this using Template Inheritance which allows for a template to extend another template, and then, using their block syntax, overwrite portions of the template that its extending. Another classic example of why the term RTFM was coined in the first place. Ok, now I get back to work on launching that Django application I've been working on!

 

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Comment from: iJames [Visitor]
Hey but what about the easy way in Rails you can do an Ajax partial update? Have you found a solution to that one? I'm trying to do that in Django. The issue is updating multiple parts of the page when I'm interacting with an object on the page. You find something that solves that?
07/05/10 @ 18:19

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