Hey guys! I know I haven't posted anything in a very long time. Exigent circumstances. Anyway, now I'm back with what may well be the most important skill in your entire Django toolkit. The templating language that Django ships makes writing pages that display multiple results mundanely easy.
In this part I'll only introduce you to templates. We'll see how to render them in the next one.
Variables:
We all know what variables are and how important they are for programming. This is how variables are represented in Django:
In this part I'll only introduce you to templates. We'll see how to render them in the next one.
Variables:
We all know what variables are and how important they are for programming. This is how variables are represented in Django:
{{ variable_name }}
It can also be written as {{variable_name}} but the former is more readable. Let's see how to 'declare' a variable in an HTML script:
<h1>{{ heading }}</h1>
<form action = "/foo/" method = "post">
<input type = "text" name = "bar" placeholder = "{{ placeholder }}">
</form>
Notice the difference? {{ heading }} is without quotes and {{ placeholder }} is with. The basic concept is you write the name of the variable exactly as you would write normal text. While writing normal text, you would not put quotes between the <h1>...</h1> tags but would in the <input> tag.
Right now if you just write this much code it'll print all raw data. There is no use of this code yet. However, we'll see how to render context to these templates soon enough.
Right now if you just write this much code it'll print all raw data. There is no use of this code yet. However, we'll see how to render context to these templates soon enough.
