On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 01:10 -0800, Gath wrote:
> Am building a Q&A page, sort of stackoverflow.com kinda page! Am
> having a bit of a problem trying to render the form. Am pasing 3
> objects to the template that renders the page i.e. Question object,
> Answers related to the question and Answer form object.
>
> In the first part of the page i want to display the Question, then the
> answers list related to the question follows, then at the bottom of
> the page i display my form to enter the new answer.
>
> On my template when i use the {{ extends "base_site.html" }} tag,
> then only the form get rendered without the first part of questions,
> When i remove that tag then only the Question section get displayed
> minus the form!!
When you use the "extends" tag, *everything* in the child template must
be inside "block" tags. You extend the base template and replace certain
blocks inside the base template. You cannot add random content outside
of blocks.
So your template has pretty much no chance of working in the "extends"
case, since nothing is inside {% block ... %} ... {% endblock %} pairs.
As for the non-extends case, I don't really understand what you're
saying is happening there. However, the standard debugging rules apply:
remove everything it starts working as expected and then slowly add
things back so that you know the exact change that causes the problem
(and have the smallest possible template that demonstrates the problem).
In this case, I would remove everything except displaying the form and
check that that works. If it does, then add in the "display the
question" bit, perhaps. Then displaying the answers list. It's just an
incremental process then.
But, if you're trying to extend a base template, you first need to
adjust things to work with extends. Replace everything with a small
string of hard-coded text and notice the difference between replacing a
block element from the base template with not putting things inside
blocks.
Regards,
Malcolm
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