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Asked: 2026-06-04T21:45:05+00:00

I’m posting this question not because I am getting some errors but because I

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I’m posting this question not because I am getting some errors but because I would like to know how dajax should be used

Here is what I want to do:

I want some links on my homepage (eg. books, authors), when user clicks them, he gets a list of books/authors.

Here is what I’m doing:

When user clicks on books, I call a dajax process.
Inside ajax.py:

  • I get all the books using books = Book.objects.all()
  • I have a template = "{% for book in books %}"... blah blah blah
  • I render the template a = Template(template).render(Context(locals()))
  • I do dajax assign a as innerhtml of some div tag.

Is this the right way to do things?
Instead of writing the template in ajax.py should I open templates from some xyz.html and then render it? Any other good, clean ways to get similar tasks done?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Loading a template from a dedicated template file is in almost any case cleaner. A long python string with HTML in it is not very readable.

    Of course you could also send your books via add_data(data,callback_function) and write a javascript callback function that populates the list which would be the Dajax way of doing what Thomas Orozco proposed.

    But judging from the pagination example rendering a template file and sending it to innerHTML is ‘the right way’.

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