4.5.3 Adding Logic with Template Tags
To iterate and print the lists of startups and blog posts associated with a Tag object, we need something a little more powerful than simple variables. We need a loop.
Just as Django allows for variables through the {{ }} delimiters, Django provides template tags, which are delimited by {% %}. Template tags allow for conditional logic, loops, and evaluation of functions and methods, meaning that we can run and evaluate Python in our template.
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On top of the {{ variable }} and {% expression %} delimiters, Django supplies {# #}, which is used to write comments in templates. The utility of using template comments over markup-specific comments is that they will not appear in the output of the rendered templates. ...
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