How do you insert a template into another template?
There are mainly 2 ways (2 easy ones)
1:
In base html put {% include "myapp/sub.html" %}
And just write html code inside your sub.html file
2:
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/templates/language/#template-inheritance
You can do this using a block. Blocks are a Django Template tag which will override sections of a template you extend. I've included an example below.
basic_template.html
<body>
{% block 'body' %}
{% endblock %}
</body>
template you want to include: (i.e. example.html)
{% extends 'basic_template.html' %}
{% block 'body' %}
/* HTML goes here */
{% endblock %}
views.py:
return render_to_response(template='example.html', context, context_instance)
Doing this will load basic_template.html, but replace everything inside of {% block 'body' %} {% endblock %}
in basic_template.html with whatever is contained within {% block 'body' %} {% endblock %}
.
You can read more about blocks and template inheritance in the Django Docs
You can do:
<div class="basic">
{% include "main/includes/subtemplate.html" %}
</div>
where subtemplate.html
is another Django template. In this subtemplate.html
you can put the HTML that would be obtained with Ajax.
You can also include the template multiple times:
<div class="basic">
{% for item in items %}
{% include "main/includes/subtemplate.html" %}
{% endfor %}
</div>