Question

I’m having trouble with Django templates and CharField models.

So I have a model with a CharField that creates a slug that replaces spaces with underscores. If I create an object, Somename Somesurname, this creates slug Somename_Somesurname and gets displayed as expected on the template.

However, if I create an object, Somename Somesurname (notice the second space), slug Somename__Somesurname is created, and although on the Django console I see this as <Object: Somename Somesurname>, on the template it is displayed as Somename Somesurname.

So do Django templates somehow strip spaces? Is there a filter I can use to get the name with its spaces?

Answer 1

Let me preface this by saying @DNS’s answer is correct as to why the spaces are not showing.

With that in mind, this template filter will replace any spaces in the string with  

Usage:

{{ 'hey there  world'|spacify }} 

Output would be hey there  world

Here is the code:

from django.template import Library from django.template.defaultfilters import stringfilter from django.utils.html import conditional_escape from django.utils.safestring import mark_safe import re  register = Library()  @stringfilter def spacify(value, autoescape=None):     if autoescape:     esc = conditional_escape     else:     esc = lambda x: x     return mark_safe(re.sub('\s', '&'+'nbsp;', esc(value))) spacify.needs_autoescape = True register.filter(spacify) 

For notes on how template filters work and how to install them, check out the docs.