Re: include template which extends something else

Thanks for your quick reply. Yes, this is also what I found, so I was quite shure that my code will never work. What I try to do is to render a list of database objects. But not only on one page but on different pages and with slightly different designs in each of the lists. So my plan was, to avoid writing individual templates for each list, to create one base template for the general appearance of such list items and only adapt blocks on each individual list.

Explained the other way around, how would I render a template.html which needs a database object  in a for loop and which extends a base_template html?

Hope I achieved to explain the problem well enough...

2015-10-28 16:39 GMT+01:00 Tim Graham <timograham@gmail.com>:

I think that's a limitation described in the {% include %} docs: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/ref/templates/builtins/#include. See the "Note" box where it says:

The include tag should be considered as an implementation of "render this subtemplate and include the HTML", not as "parse this subtemplate and include its contents as if it were part of the parent". This means that there is no shared state between included templates – each include is a completely independent rendering process.

Blocks are evaluated before they are included. This means that a template that includes blocks from another will contain blocks that have already been evaluated and rendered - not blocks that can be overridden by, for example, an extending template.

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It's difficult for me to make a suggestion about how to structure things without a more complete understanding of what you're trying to do.

On Wednesday, October 28, 2015 at 11:28:07 AM UTC-4, svewa wrote:

Hi all,

sorry if it might be a stupid question for pro's but it seems I still miss a deeper knowledge of some design aspects. What I try to do is the following:

<ul>
{% for obj in objects %}
        <li>
            {% include 'item.html' with object=obj %}
        </li>
{% endfor %}
</ul>

this I need to to in three different apps with slightly varying appearance of item.html.

So my idea was to create a root_item.html in my root template folder and simply do in item.html the following::

{% extends "root_item.html" %}
{% block anyblock %}
{% endblock %}

I'am so far that I guess I know that this will not work. Could anyone explain to me the prefered way to achieve this? In words, I need a base template which extensions should be rendered as list items...

Sorry I'am shure it is easy but I am stuck  

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