template filter to trim any leading or trailing whitespace

Question

Is there a template filter in django that will trim any leading or trailing whitespace from the input text.

Something like: {{ var.example|trim }}

Answer 1

You can do it yourself

from django import template from django.template.defaultfilters import stringfilter  register = template.Library()  @register.filter @stringfilter def trim(value):     return value.strip() 

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Answer 2

Django templates allow you to access methods and properties by using the '.' syntax:

{{ var.example.strip }} 

You can extend this by chaining other filters when you're dealing with HTML, e.g.:

{{ var.example.strip|safe|removetags:"p img" }} 

Here we first remove any <p> and <img> tags, then tell Django it can safely render the rest of the content, which we have stripped of any whitespace.