In order to help me get some experience with CSS, HTML and Bootstrap I made a super quick blog with Pelican and I am trying to make my own template. I started with a few lorum posts just to have something.
Following multiple tutorials and reading for the last several hours, I created a theme directory in my project and placed a template directory in that.
I created a very simple base.html and index.html in the template directory.
base.html
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<!-- Required meta tags -->
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no">
<!-- Bootstrap CSS -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.0.0/css/bootstrap.min.css" integrity="sha384-Gn5384xqQ1aoWXA+058RXPxPg6fy4IWvTNh0E263XmFcJlSAwiGgFAW/dAiS6JXm" crossorigin="anonymous">
<title>{% block title %}{% endblock %}</title>
</head>
<body>
<h2>This is my base template</h2>
<div class="container">
{% block content %}{% endblock %}
</div>
</body>
</html>
and index.html
{% extends "base.html" %}
{% block title %}{{ SITENAME }}{% endblock %}
{% block content %}
<h1>{{ SITENAME }}</h1>
{% for article in articles %}
<h2>{{ article.title }}</h2>
<label>Posted on <strong>{{ article.date }}</strong></label>
{{ article.content|truncate(110) }}
{% else %}
No posts yet!
{% endfor %}
{% endblock %}
I set THEME = 'theme' in pelicanconf.py. I have tried generating my site with make html and with pelican content -s pelicanconf.py -t theme but it just won't generate using my base.html and index.html files.
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I'm trying to get basic bootstrap formatting working in a django app, and installed django_bootstrap5 to do so. No formatting, however, is getting applied to any of the pages.
Here's the various pages:
base.html:
<!DOCTYPE html>
{% load django_bootstrap5 %}
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>
{% block title %}
{% endblock %}
</title>
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
{% block body %}
{% endblock %}
</div>
</body>
</html>
I extend this in a simple index page:
<!DOCTYPE html>
{% extends 'base.html' %}
{% load django_bootstrap5 %}
{% block title %}
Home
{% endblock %}
{% block body %}
<h1>Hello World</h1>
{% endblock %}
Hello World, however, is not showing up in a container.
This is also failing on a form page:
<!DOCTYPE html>
{% extends 'base.html' %}
{% load django_bootstrap5 %}
{% block body %}
<div class="container">
<h1>Sign Up</h1>
<form method="POST">
{% csrf_token %}
{% bootstrap_form form %}
<input type="submit" value="Sign Up" class="btn btn-default">
</form>
</div>
{% endblock %}
The form is neither in a bootstrap container, nor does it have any styling at all. What am I missing here? Do you need to also load the bootstrap files by cdn or download them and add them to static when using django_bootstrap5? That makes things work, but it seems like it defeats the purpose of installing via pip. Thank you.
Thank you #tdy for tracking this down in the source code on github: one is not supposed to install bootstrap via cdn or by downloading the local files. Those are already included. Instead the preferred way to link is to include the {% boostrap_css %} and {% bootstrap_javascript %} tags. Thus your base.html file should look something like:
<!DOCTYPE html>
{% load django_bootstrap5 %}
<head>
<!-- Required meta tags -->
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no">
<!-- Bootstrap CSS -->
{% bootstrap_css %}
</head>
<body>
<!-- Content -->
<!-- Bootstrap JavaScript -->
{% bootstrap_javascript %}
</body>
As an additional note, even if one did have to install bootstrap via cdn or local files in addition to the django_bootstrap5 package, this still wouldn't defeat the point of the package: django_bootstrap5 makes it easy to integrate bootstrap into django, that's the main point. You can format an entire form in a single line using django_bootstrap5:
<form id="postForm" action="{% url 'posts:create' %}" method="POST">
{% csrf_token %}
{% bootstrap_form form %} # this one line does a TON of work.
<input class="btn btn-primary btn-large" type="submit" value="Post">
</form>
The django_bootstrap5 package also makes it easy to install bootstrap.
Thank you all, especially #tdy for the support, and happy django-ing.
I am building a webapp with Django and Python 3.7 and I'm really confused by this simple thing:
These are my templates. They are all in the same directory.
When I try to call {% extends 'store.html' %} , I get TemplateDoesNotExist at /publicaciones/ and it points to store.html. This is in publicaciones.html. Here's the template:
publicaciones.html:
{% extends "store.html" %}
{% load static %}
{% load crispy_forms_tags %}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{% static 'css/style_reset-pass.css' %}">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.1.3/css/bootstrap.min.css" integrity="sha384-MCw98/SFnGE8fJT3GXwEOngsV7Zt27NXFoaoApmYm81iuXoPkFOJwJ8ERdknLPMO" crossorigin="anonymous">
<title>Publicaciones</title>
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
{% block content %}
{% for item in items %}
{{ item|crispy }}
{% endfor %}
{% endblock content %}
</div>
</body>
</html>
What am I missing?
Please ask if you need any other code. I'll answer immediately.
It should be {% extends "store/store.html" %}
You have path as templates/store/store.html
You refer to the super template just like you refer to a template in the view for example. In case you thus should refer to it as "store/store.html":
{% extends "store/store.html" %}
Note that if you extend a template, you can only fill in the {% block … %}…{% endblock %} template blocks [Django-doc], so you can not just write an entire html file, that would be rather non-sensical, since otherwise there is no reason to inherit the template.
Adding to the point #baldr made, make sure you specify the template folder in your settings.py file (properly): like 'DIRS': [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates')] in the TEMPLATES section
New to Django, I want to use different css files for different pages - i.e. page1.css for page1.html, page2.css for page2.html. Is there a way to do this while still extending base.html?
In base.html
{% load staticfiles %}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge,chrome=1">
<title>{% block title %}Default Title{% endblock %}</title>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0" />
<!-- css -->
if page1.html
<link rel="stylesheet" href="{% static "css/page1.css" %}">
if page2.html
<link rel="stylesheet" href="{% static "css/page2.css" %}">
if page3.html
<link rel="stylesheet" href="{% static "css/page3.css" %}">
</head>
<body class="{% block body_class %}{% endblock %}">
{% block content %}{% endblock%}
</body>
</html>
In page1.html
{% extends "base.html" %}
{% load staticfiles %}
{% block body_class %}page1{% endblock %}
{% block title %}Page1{% endblock %}
{% block content %}
Page 1
{% endblock content %}
You can use the same concept that applies to {% block content %} in that you can fill it in or extend it on a page by page basis.
Hence, in base.html, create a block called styles in the head section (or anywhere you want to load your CSS):
{% block styles %}
{% endblock %}
Now, you can extend this block on a per page basis in any of your templates that use base.html:
Example: page1/template-view.html
{% extends "base.html" %}
{% load staticfiles %}
{% block styles %}
<link rel="stylesheet" href="{% static 'css/page1.css' %}">
{% endblock %}
I'm writing an app using the Django Python web framework. I added my apps to the INSTALLED_APPS in settings.py and my templates are served without problems. But, concerning the static files, i have a little problem with them. I wanted to use the default parameters in STATICFILES_FINDER :
STATICFILES_FINDERS = (
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
)
When i want to include a css file for example, in my template i just do (supposing '/' will be my static/applicationName in my application folder) :
<link rel='stylesheet' href="/css/style.css">
Am i doing it wrong, and if so, what's the good way to deal with static files ?
UPDATE :
My base.html template :
{% load staticfiles %}
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
{% block head %}
<meta charset='utf-8'>
<title> {% block title %} {% endblock %} - Find Something </title>
<link rel='stylesheet' href="{% static 'css/style.css' %}">
{% endblock head %}
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
And my inheriting template is :
{% extends "frontend/base.html" %}
{% block title %} {{ title }} {% endblock %}
{% block head %}
{{ super() }}
{% endblock %}
{% static %}
<link rel='stylesheet' href="{% static 'css/style.css' %}">
{% block head %}
{{block.super}}
{% endblock %}
I have a website i'm putting together with python and django.
I have a template html page, Speakers.html, that extends Base.html. Base.html has the stylesheet base.css.
Speakers.html is displaying with base.css styling as it should be, my problem is that I want Speakers.html to have additional styling from another stylesheet, speakers.css.
I've been trying to figure it out but speaker.css doesn't seem to be applied, infact i've just noticed in the cmd output that the file speaker.css isn't being loaded at all.
I tried putting it in a block, which is the code you now see below.. I had to repeat {% load static %} to get rid of an error about it expecting the endblock but it doesn't seem to have made a difference.
Base.html
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Base.Html</title>
{% load static %}
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{% static "CSS/base.css" %}" />
{% block additionalcss %}{% endblock %}
</head>
<body>
...ect
Speakers.html
<!-- extending works -->
{% extends "Base.html" %}
<!-- Now i'm trying to load an additional stylesheet -->
{% block additionalcss %}
{% load static %}
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{% static "CSS/speakers.css" %}" />
{% endblock %}
{% block currentpage_content %}
<h2>Guest speakers at the event</h2>
<p> This text would be red if speakers.css was applying properly </p>
...ect
For testing purposes i've put the following rule in speakers.css:
*
{
color: red;
}
So I reason the text on Speakers.html should all be red if it were working.
Try using blocks in the templates.
Something like:
Base.html
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Base.Html</title>
{% load static %}
{% block css %}{% endblock %}
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{% static "CSS/base.css" %}" />
</head>
<body>
...ect
Speakers.html
<!-- extending works -->
{% extends "Base.html" %}
{% block css %}
{% load static %}
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{% static "CSS/speakers.css" %}" />
{% endblock %}
{% block currentpage_content %}
<h2>Guest speakers at the event</h2>
<p> This text would be red if speakers.css was applying properly </p>
...ect
By defining blocks in the parents and then specifying them in the children the css files will be inserted into your template.