Chapter 5. Templates
In this chapter, we will discuss the following topics:
- Features of Django's template language
- Organizing templates
- Bootstrap
- Template inheritance tree pattern
- Active link pattern
Understanding Django's template language features
It is time to talk about the third musketeer in the MTV trio—templates. Your team might have designers who take care of designing templates. Or you might be designing them yourself. Either way, you need to be very familiar with them. They are, after all, directly facing your users.
Let's start with a quick primer of Django's template language features.
Variables
Each template gets a set of context variables. Similar to Python's string format() method's single curly brace {variable} syntax, Django uses the double ...
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