The more I "fiddle" with these templates, the more I'm understanding them. It was the initial learning curve that just had me confused b/c it wasn't what I was looking for. I think I understand all you're speaking of now, though. Thanks for your great help Karen! I'll be seeing you on here a lot with my new found love of Django!
Randall On Oct 22, 12:54 pm, "Karen Tracey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/22/07, DjangoFett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I was hoping for more of a tree structure of extensions... > > Note that extends can be chained. Using your example: > > You start with index.html that defines all the blocks you want to customize, > as you have it now. > > Then, in index_title, you extend index and customize the tag_title block. > > Then, perhaps in index_body, you extend index_title (which has already > customized tag_title), and customize block_header and block_body. > > Then, perhaps in index_footer, you extend index_body and customize > block_footer. > > At that point all your blocks have been customized and your view specifies > index_footer as the template to load, which in turn points to index_body, > which in turn refers to index_title, which finally gets back to the base > index template. > > Now this particular sequence of extensions for customization may not make > much logical sense, but the point is you do not have to override/customize > everything in the base template at once. You can chain your extensions. > And by creating different extenders for the same base, create a tree of > extensions. Not sure if that's the kind of tree you were looking for, > though. > > Hoping this clarifies more than it muddies, > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
