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Asked: 2026-05-16T02:43:57+00:00

I want to use an app to create a menu that is easy to

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I want to use an app to create a menu that is easy to edit with the admin interface. Something like this:

class Menu_item
        name = models.CharField()
        item_url = models.URLField()

My template looks something like this:

{% extends base.html %}

div ID="nav"

   {{ foo.navbar.? }}

/div

div ID="Content"

   {% block content %}{% endblock %}

/div

I want div#nav to contain a ul based upon the above model but just can’t figure out how to accomplish this. It seems like an object_list generic view would be great but, the URL accesses the view for the model that populates div#content. Does anyone have any suggestions? Is there a way to access a generic view without a URL?

Thank you.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I have discovered a solution. Inclusion Tags.

    What I did was create an inclusion tag, which amounts to a simple custom template tag (django provides a shortcut for you!).

    Here is what I did:

  2. Ignore views.py – It will not be used in this case
  3. Create a sub-directory in the app’s dir called “templatetags” containing init.py and get_navbar.py (or whatever you want your tag to be):

    4. mysite/
   navbar/
        templatetags/
            __ init__.py (without the space befire init)
            get_navbar.py
  4. I changed my navbar.models to look like this:
    5. from django.db import models


class Menu_choice(models.Model):
        name = models.CharField(max_length=30)

        def __unicode__(self):
                return self.name

class Menu_item(models.Model):
        name = models.CharField(max_length=20)
        navbar = models.ForeignKey(Menu_choice)
        item_url = models.CharField(max_length=200)
        item_desc = models.CharField(max_length=30)

        def __unicode__(self):
                return self.name

    This allows me to create a Menu_choice object in the admin interface for each layer of navigation (primary, secondary, etc)

  5. get_navbar.py looks like this:
    6. from navbar.models import Menu_choice, Menu_item
from django import template

register = template.Library()

@register.inclusion_tag('navbar/navbar.html')
def get_navbar(navBar):
        navbar = Menu_item.objects.filter(navbar__name=navBar)
        return { "navbar": navbar }

    (Note navBar as opposed to navbar)

  6. Create the navbar.html template: 
        <ul>
    
    {% for menu_item in navbar %}
        <li><a href="{{ menu_item.item_url }}">{{ menu_item.name }}&lt/a>&lt/li>
    {% endfor  %}
    </ul>
  7. Finally, I inserted the following into my base.html: 
    {% load get_navbar %}

    8. And where I want primary navigation:

    {% get_navbar "primary" %}

    Note: the quotes around the string you are sending to your inclusion tag are important. I spent a ridiculously lengthy bit of time trying to make it work before I figured that out.

    Also a big thank you to dikamilo for the help.

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