Defining “global variable” in Django templates

Question

I\'m doing something like:

{% extends \'base.html\' %}
{% url myapp.views.dashboard object as object_url %}
{% block sidebar %}
... {{ object_url }} ...
{% e         


        

Answer 1

Well, this is kind of abusive of template inheritance, but you could use {{block.super}} to put object_url into your blocks.

In other words, in your mid-level template do:

{% block sidebar %}{{ object_url }}{% endblock %}
{% block content %}{{ object_url }}{% endblock %}

And then in your block templates use:

{% block sidebar %}
... {{ block.super }}...
{% endblock %}

It's not a great idea because it prevents you from putting anything besides {{ object_url }} into your block... but it works. Just don't tell anyone you got it from me!