Django: Web Development with Python

The template language

When a developer develops templates, he/she regularly needs to use the template language and filters.

Template tags

The following are the key elements of the template language:

• {% autoescape on OR off %} {% endautoescape %}: This automatically starts the auto-escape feature that helps protect the browser of the displayed data (XSS).
• {% block block_name %} {% endblock %}: This sets the blocks that can be filled by templates that inherit from them.
• {% comment %} {% endcomment %}: This sets a comment that will not be sent to the user as HTML.
• {% extends template_name %}: This overrides a template.
• {% spaceless %}: This removes all the whitespaces between the HTML tags.
• {% include template_name %}: This includes a template named template_name ...