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Asked: 2026-06-02T07:03:37+00:00

I followed the Django first app tutorial, and now I am wondering how I

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I followed the Django “first app” tutorial, and now I am wondering how I could write templates that the whole site will use. I can write the templates for each view, but how do I write a template that will be on every page and then include the ‘sub templates’ in say a ‘content block’?

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  1. Editorial Team

    See the Template Inheritance section of the Django template docs.

    Basically, you create one template that is the “base”:

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" />
    <title>{% block title %}My amazing site{% endblock %}</title>
</head>

<body>
    <div id="sidebar">
        {% block sidebar %}
        <ul>
            <li><a href="/">Home</a></li>
            <li><a href="/blog/">Blog</a></li>
        </ul>
        {% endblock %}
    </div>

    <div id="content">
        {% block content %}{% endblock %}
    </div>
</body>
</html>

    and save it as (for example) “base.html” in your template directory, then each specific page template looks like:

    {% extends "base.html" %}

{% block title %}My amazing blog{% endblock %}

{% block content %}
{% for entry in blog_entries %}
    <h2>{{ entry.title }}</h2>
    <p>{{ entry.body }}</p>
{% endfor %}
{% endblock %}
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