Question

I need a javascript templating system and i think handlebars.js does an excellent job in this case.
I’m having syntax conflicts with handlebars templates inside a django template because django tries to render handlebars variables.

Is there a tag in django templates to stop rendering a block with curly braces?

Something like:

{{ django_context_varable }} #works
{{% raw %}}
<script id="restaurants-tpl" type="text/x-handlebars-template">
    <ul>
    {{#restaurants}} #not rendered by django, plain text
    <li>{{name}}</li>
    {{/restaurants}}
    </ul>
</script>
{{% endraw %}}

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Edit

Likely i found this. It works fine.

Update

Django 1.5 supports verbatim tag natively.

Answer 1

Is there a tag in django templates to stop rendering a block with curly braces?

OLD Answer for Django 1.0-1.4: No, though you could though you could put the block in a separate file and include it without rendering or use a different templating engine.

New Answer: The answer above was correct in August 2011 when the question was asked and answered. Starting in Django 1.5 (released Feb 2013, though alpha/beta versions in late 2012), they introduced the {% verbatim %} and {% endverbatim %} which will prevent the django template engine from processing the content in the block.

So for the question asked the following will work in django 1.5+ out of the box:

{{ django_context_varable }} #works
{% verbatim %}
<script id="restaurants-tpl" type="text/x-handlebars-template">
    <ul>
    {{#restaurants}} #not rendered by django, plain text
    <li>{{name}}</li>
    {{/restaurants}}
    </ul>
</script>
{% endverbatim %}

The documentation on verbatim is here. Yes, this was noted by others earlier, but as this is the accepted answer I should list the easiest solution.