Override existing Django Template Tags

Question

Is it possible to override an existing Django Template Tag or is it necessary to customize the template file and create a new Template Tag?

Answer 1

I was looking for the same answer, so figured I'd share my solution here. I wanted to override the default url template tag in django without having to use a custom template tag and load it in every template file.

The goal was to replace %20 (spaces) with + (pluses). Here's what I came up with...

In __init__.py

from django.template.defaulttags import URLNode

old_render = URLNode.render
def new_render(cls, context):
  """ Override existing url method to use pluses instead of spaces
  """
  return old_render(cls, context).replace("%20", "+")
URLNode.render = new_render

This page was useful https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/template/defaulttags.py

Answer 2

I assume by "an Existing Django Template Tag" you mean a tag in a different app.

Create a templatetags/tagfile.py that registers a tag with the same name. Make sure that tagfile is the same name that the template loads with {% load tagfile %} for getting the original tag.

Also, make sure your app is listed after the original app in INSTALLED_APPS.