Navigation in django

Question

I\'ve just done my first little webapp in django and I love it. I\'m about to start on converting an old production PHP site into django and as part its template, there is a

Answer 1

Since Django 1.5:

In all generic class-based views (or any class-based view inheriting from ContextMixin), the context dictionary contains a view variable that points to the View instance.

So if you are using such views, you could add something likie breadcrumbs as a class level field and use it in your templates.

Example view code:

class YourDetailView(DetailView):
     breadcrumbs = ['detail']
     (...)

In your template you could use it in this way:

Detail

If you want to additionally "highlight" parent navigation items, you need to extend breadcrumbs list:

class YourDetailView(DetailView):
     breadcrumbs = ['dashboard', 'list', 'detail']
     (...)

... and in your template:

Dashboard
List
Detail

This is easy and clean solution and works pretty well with nested navigation.