Using {% url ??? %} in django templates

Question

I have looked a lot on google for answers of how to use the \'url\' tag in templates only to find many responses saying \'You just insert it into your template and point it

Answer 1

Make sure (django 1.5 and beyond) that you put the url name in quotes, and if your url takes parameters they should be outside of the quotes (I spent hours figuring out this mistake!).

{% url 'namespace:view_name' arg1=value1 arg2=value2 as the_url %}
 link_name