Question

I have a structure where there’s normally a page heading in (% block heading %} in my base template:

base.html

<h2>{% block heading %}{% endblock %}</h2>

Most of the time, I’ll pass in a heading like this through templates that extend base:

extends-base.html

{% block heading %}Super Cool Page!{% endblock %}

However, for a special page, I don’t want to have a page heading:

extends-base-special.html

{% block heading %}{% endblock %}

Ideally, this should exclude the <h2> tags. Now, I could just make the all of the extending templates include the <h2> tags, but that violates DRY, as every page should have the same element for the page-level heading. What I’d prefer to do is this (which doesn’t appear to work):

base-prefered.html

{% if heading %}
<h2>{% block heading %}{% endblock %}</h2>
{% endif %}

Is this doable somehow on the template level, or do I have to tuck into views for this?

Answer 1

You could double wrap it

{% block noheader %}
  <h2>{% block header %}Super Cool Page!{% endblock header %}</h2>
{% endblock noheader %}

On pages without header

{% block noheader %}{% endblock %}