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

I found the best is to use an inclusion tag:

templates/fnf/nav_item.html

    {{ link_name }}

This is just my basic bootstrap nav item I wish to render.

It gets the href value, and optionally the link_name value. is_active is calculated based on the current request.

templatetags/nav.py

from django import template

register = template.Library()


@register.inclusion_tag('fnf/nav_item.html', takes_context=True)
def nav_item(context, url_name, link_name=None):
    return {
        'url_name': url_name,
        'link_name': link_name or url_name.title(),
        'is_active': context.request.resolver_match.url_name == url_name,
    }

Then use it in a nav: templates/fnf/nav.html

{% load nav %}

        

                {% nav_item 'dashboard' %}