Is there anything like Generic templates in django like Generic views

Question

Generic view have saved lot of code for me but i still have to write templates of every model. I have same code in all template i.e

<form action="/{{type}}/{{ action }}/" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" >
    {% csrf_token %}
    {% for field in form %}
        <div class="fieldWrapper">
            {{ field.errors }}
            {{ field.label_tag }}: {{ field }}
        </div>
    {% endfor %}
    <p><input type="submit" value="Submit" /></p>
    </form>

i.e basically i want to have all fields from the model to add or edit.

is there any work around to have generic template automatrically

Answer 1

If you have template code that is identical, you can use the include tag:

{% include "foo/bar.html" %}

And the included code can be modified with variables:

{% include "name_snippet.html" with person="Jane" %}

Even if the code is different for each template (I think your example is talking about forms having different fields, not sure), you can still use includes - just make two blocks:

{% include "startform.html with some_action="post" %}
    {{ field.errors }}
    {{ field.label_tag }}: {{ field }}
    {{ field.field2_tag }}: {{ field2 }}
{% include "endform.html %}

There is also template inheritance, where you can define a basic template, and have all your other templates inherit from it. Inheritance is block-based, you can override blocks in the parent template with new code in the child template. It works very well.