Debugging Django templates
Projects can have very complicated logic in their templates. Subtle bugs while creating a template can lead to hard-to-find bugs. We need to set TEMPLATE_DEBUG
to True
(in addition to DEBUG
) in settings.py
so that Django shows a better error page when there is an error in your templates.
There are several crude ways to debug templates, such as inserting the variable of interest, such as {{ variable }}
, or if you want to dump all the variables, use the built-in debug
tag like this (inside a conveniently clickable text area):
<textarea onclick="this.focus();this.select()" style="width: 100%;">
{% filter force_escape %}
{% debug %}
{% endfilter %}
</textarea>
A better option is use the Django Debug Toolbar mentioned earlier. ...
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