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How to repeat a "block" in a django template

Use the Django template macros plugin:

https://gist.github.com/1715202 (django >= 1.4)

or

http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/363/ (django < 1.4)

django >= 1.4

# base.html
{% kwacro title %}
    {% block title %}My Cool Website{% endblock %}
{% endkwacro %}

<html>
    <head>
        <title>{% usekwacro title %}</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <h1>{% usekwacro title %}</h1>
    </body>
</html>

and

# blog.html
{% extends 'base.html' %}
{% block title %}My Blog{% endblock %}

django < 1.4

# base.html
{% macro title %}
    {% block title %}My Cool Website{% endblock %}
{% endmacro %}

<html>
    <head>
        <title>{% usemacro title %}</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <h1>{% usemacro title %}</h1>
    </body>
</html>

and

# blog.html
{% extends 'base.html' %}
{% block title %}My Blog{% endblock %}

I think that use of the context processor is in this case an overkill. You can easily do this:

#base.html
<html>
    <head>
        <title>{% block title %}My Cool Website{% endblock %}</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        {% block content %}{% endblock %}
    </body>
</html>

and then:

# blog.html
{% extends 'base.html' %}
{% block content %}
    <h1>{% block title %}My Blog{% endblock %}</h1>
    Lorem ipsum here...
{% endblock %}

and so on... Looks like DRY-compatible.


You probably don't actually want to use a block but rather to just use a variable:

# base.html
<html>
    <head>
        <title>{{ title|default:"My Cool Website" }}</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <h1>{{ title|default:"My Cool Website" }}</h1>
    </body>
</html>

You then set the title through the context.


Here's a way I discovered when trying to do the same thing myself:

# base_helper.html
<html>
    <head>
        <title>{% block _title1 %}{% endblock %}</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <h1>{% block _title2 %}{% endblock %}</h1>
    </body>
</html>


# base.html
{% extends "base_helper.html" %}

# Copy title into _title1 & _title2, using "My Cool Website" as a default.
{% block _title1 %}{% block _title2 %}{% block title %}My Cool Website{% endblock %}{% endblock %}{% endblock %}

Requires an extra file unfortunately, but doesn't require you to pass the title from the view.


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