I think I'm starting to see the point of extends now, as I had been assuming it was equivilant to the php include statements. What I'm assuming extends is for now is to always have "base" files from which to extend. You create particular layouts from which children inherit the parents overall template.
So, example: You'll write up index_viewlist.html which only has the individual special "blocks" of code which are then used in the index.html template (index_viewlist.html->index.html). Then, you'll have another file called index_viewitem.html which will use the same block names to form new code using the index.html template (index_viewitem.html- >index.html). I was hoping for more of a tree structure of extensions...but I see how that would breakdown when you want to use various views to inheret from a single index file using their own methods to put data into that index. Long story short, it's very much akin to templated classes. Randall Prince On Oct 22, 12:10 pm, DjangoFett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How, then, can i extend multiple code sources off of my index.html > file? > > I'm looking at the Django Template language page > (http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/templates/) and what it's saying > (as well as my logic) isn't meshing with what you're saying. Here's a > simple example I'm creating right now for educational purposes: > > index_title.html: > > {% extends "index.html" %} > {% block tag_title %}THIS IS THE TITLE{% endblock %} > > index.html: > > <html> > <head> > <title>{% block block_title %}THIS IS NOT THE TITLE{% endblock %}</ > title> > </head> > <body> > {% block block_header %}THIS IS NOT THE HEADER{% endblock %}<br /> > <br /> > {% block block_body %}THIS IS NOT THE BODY{% endblock %}<br /> > <br /> > {% block block_footer %}THIS IS NOT THE FOOTER{% endblock %}<br /> > <br /> > </body> > </html> > > I'm going to load the "index_title.html" file? How can I load the > proper files to extend the header, body and footer section then? It > just seems like reverse logic to me. > > On Oct 22, 11:54 am, "Karen Tracey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 10/22/07, DjangoFett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > def Index( request ): > > > > t = loader.get_template( 'index.html' ) > > > I think you want: > > > t = loader.get_template( 'index_title.html' ) > > > there. Your view code needs to specify the "extending" template you want to > > have rendered, not the base template being extended. > > > Karen --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
