How to escape {{ or }} in django template?

Question

Django treats {{ var }} as some variable in its template. How can I escape {{ var }} or {{ or }} such that django does no

Answer 1

I believe you are looking for the templatetag template tag.

As the linked-to doc states,

Since the template system has no concept of "escaping", to display one of the bits used in template tags, you must use the {% templatetag %} tag.

For example:

<p>"{% templatetag openvariable %} some text {% templatetag closevariable %}"</p>

will appear as so:

<p>"{{ some text }}"</p>

Answer 2

Jinja, which is what is being used for the templates, offers several suggestions for escaping here. What has worked best for me is using something like "{% raw %}{{ some text }}{% endraw %}"

Answer 3

Django 1.5 introduced {% verbatim %} template tag. It stops template from parsing contents of this tag:

{% verbatim %}
    {{ var }}
{% endverbatim %}

will be rendered as:

{{ var }}

Answer 4

Edit: I don't really recommended this because it's not very clean, but it's still an option.

I was searching for one that I could use with JQuery Templates and figured a way to do it without tags or filters. This is as short as I could get it:

{{ "{{ any text }" }}}

Is printed as:

{{ any text }}

Why it works? Any text within {{}} is displayed as is, as long as it doesn't have two closing braces }} in a row. Then there are three brackets in a row, django interprets two first ones as end of the variable leaving one additional closing brace.