How do I reuse HTML snippets in a django view

Question

I am working on a django project (my first), and in one of my views, I have a sophisticated html snippet with JS weaved within it. I would like to reuse this "component" somewhere else in the same view. Is there a way of achieving this? Please let me know if this design is faulty to begin with?

Answer 1

Use the {% include '/my/common/template.html' %} templatetag.

Loads a template and renders it with the current context. This is a way of "including" other templates within a template.

The template name can either be a variable or a hard-coded (quoted) string, in either single or double quotes.

Answer 2

I know it's an old one but maybe someone is gonna have use of this answer.

There's also the inclusion tag. It's like the include tag, only you can pass it arguments and process it as a seperate template.

Put this in my_app/templatetags/my_templatetags.py:

@register.inclusion_tag('my_snippet.html')
def my_snippet(url, title):
    return {'url': url, 'title': title}

and then my_snippet.html can be:

<a href="{{ url }}">{{ title }}</a>

then, to use this snippet in your templates:

{% load my_templatetags %}
{% my_snippet "/homepage/" "Homepage" %}

More info: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/custom-template-tags/#howto-custom-template-tags-inclusion-tags