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Asked: 2026-05-27T12:05:36+00:00

I have a base.html template with sitewide tags for charset, google-site-verification, stylesheets, js…. I

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I have a base.html template with sitewide tags for charset, google-site-verification, stylesheets, js…. I also need to set up blocks for page specific title tags and meta descriptions.

I am wondering, should I set up a {% block head %} in my base.html and in my inherited template mix tags in that block, or should i set up specific blocks such as {% block meta %} and {% block title %} so that the tags appear in their proper places when Django renders to html.

Does this make sense? If I view source with all the tags mixed in one {%block head %} things are a bit out of order, but if I add specific blocks for each tag they are in order but use much more code…?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I normally have three blocks. Those three have covered all my and my colleague’s needs in the last 1.5 year 🙂

    • A block for css.

    • A block for javascript.

    • A block called “head-extras”. Often you want to do something special on a page-by-page basis like adding a link element that points at your rss feed. Or some inline javascript snippet. With this block, you allow these corner cases in a clear way.

    In templates that extend the base template, you can use {{ super }} in the css and javascript blocks to get the “parent’s” list and extend it with your own.

    I also have a head block around the whole thing for those few cases where you just want to override everything in the head 🙂

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