Question

Apologies, this is pretty basic. I have abstracted my static html navigation bar to a block so that it can be dynamically rendered from a model. I have created a new block marker in base.html with the following syntax

{% block navigation %}{% endblock %}

How can I ensure this is rendered on every page? Do I need to create some sort of middle layer for this? Everything I have done so far has simply used the primary block.

EDIT Sunday, 14 August 2011 11:25 AM

I didn’t explain this very well. The content of navigation block is

{% extends 'base.html' %}

{% block navigation %}

<nav>
    <ul>
    {% for item in items %}
        <li><a href="{{ item.url }}">{{ item.name }}</a></li>
    {% endfor %}
    </ul>
</nav>

{% endblock %}

I want to render this on every page without having to go through child templates of base.html individually and add it to them, if that is possible.

Answer 1

You have got static navigation bar, so you can just write code in your base.html page and then use it with {% extends 'base.html' %} tag on every new page. Your markup will be in every page. Also, if you use only extends tag in your child page and then render it – you will see base.html without any edition.

If you have got code, which need to appear on few pages, but not on everyone – create ‘includes’ directory, save code there and extend your base template with {% include %} tag. It won’t avoid repating, but make your code shorter.

And last thing you’ll need in future, maybe with dynamic code – caching. With {% cache %} tag you can cache block for some time.