[Django]-What is {% block content %} and {% endblock content %} for in Django?

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block is used for overriding specific parts of a template.

In your case, you have a block named content and this is supposed to be overridden by children that inherit from this template.

From the examples at The Django Docs

Template to be extended, named base.html

<head>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
    <title>{% block title %}My amazing site{% endblock %}</title>
</head>

Overriding Child template

{% extends "base.html" %}

{% block title %}My amazing blog{% endblock %}

“My amazing site” will be overriden by the child and then display “My amazing blog”

👤Cup of Java

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That’s where the power of the templates comes from in a sense.

You can create a hierarchy of templates so start with base.html which might be like you’ve got above;

<body>
    {% block content %}
    {% endblock content %}
</body>

Then you can create any other template, home.html for example, and do something like;

{% extends "base.html" %}

{% block content %}
    <h1>Welcome</h1>
    <p>This is the home page</p>
{% endblock content %}

Then you’d reference home.html in django and it’d include the markup from base.py with the content defined in home.html.

That’s the basics, but if you put some templates together using blocks you’ll pick it up.

👤markwalker_

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For example, you have code excerpts from 2 files:

base.html:

<body bgcolor="cyan">

    {% block content %}

    {% endblock %}
    
</body>

home.html:

{% extends 'base.html' %}

{% block content %}
<h1>Hello World from Abhishek</h1>

{% endblock %}

here in home.html, the attributes of base.html will be extended but by using {% block content %} and {% endblock %} you will be able to override the code block of home.html upon the attributes of base.html

This is Jinja template for a dynamic website.

👤Abhishek Nath

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That is simply django’s template inheritance. It basically means that a block of content from another html file has been imported into that html file you’re currently on.

👤Kevin Ramogi Obuya

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