Re: Passing Django Template Vars to JS

On maandag 11 juni 2018 20:11:36 CEST Simon Connah wrote: > I like the idea of the custom attribute. I'll do that then. The common way is to use a data- attribute[1]. -- Melvyn Sopacua [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/HTML/Howto/ Use_data_attributes -- You received

Re: Passing Django Template Vars to JS

Hi Vijay, Thank you very much for the reply and sorry for the late reply. You are completely right about not having multiple elements with the same ID. I completely forgot that an ID was meant to be unique on a page. I'll change it to a class. I like the idea of the custom attribute. I'll do tha

Re: Passing Django Template Vars to JS

I'm not sure why your code does not work (maybe there is a "race condition" between the JS click handlers), but that global variable is a bad idea in general. You can add the comment ID as an attribute to your button, like and in your event handler obtain the comment id $("#like_comment_button

Passing Django Template Vars to JS

I know that the standard way to do this is to create a script tag with a global JS variable in your Django template before you import your other JS files but that won't work for my current situation. I have an article detail view which is a single model instance. But I also have a list of comment