Hi Dougal,
Of course this have many advantages for front end developers and designers.
But please we must not do "full copy and paste of the original template".
This is the finallity of the project.
The template code is nearly so important as view code.
Regards,
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Pablo Martín
2010/10/15 Dougal Matthews <douga...@gmail.com>
> I can see one main use case. Front end developers and designers would be
> able to extend templates without worrying about python code changes or doing
> a full copy and paste of the original template (if they can find it.)
>
> Dougal
> On 15 Oct 2010 14:10, "Andrew Godwin" <and...@aeracode.org> wrote:
> > On 15/10/10 13:41, J. Pablo Martín Cobos wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I'm a Django developer since more or less 3 years. Some time ago I had
> >> the need for the extends templatetag to have more funcionality.
> >>
> >> The funcionality I mean is that a template can extends from "itself".
> >> I'm going to try to explain it better, so I will put Django admin as
> >> an example, although I needed it in others places. In many projects I
> >> wanted to customize the admin site, I wanted to tiny modify the
> >> change_list template or the change_form template, etc. I.E. like the
> >> following:
> >>
> >> file:templates/admin/change_list.html
> >>
> >> {% extends "admin/change_list.html" %}
> >>
> >> {% block extrastyle %}
> >> {{ block.super }}
> >> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{{ MEDIA_URL
> >> }}css/my_change_list_css.css" />
> >> {% endblock %}
> >>
> >>
> >> {% block breadcrumbs %}
> >> <div class="breadcrumbs">
> >> <a href="../../">
> >> {% trans "My Project" %}
> >> </a>
> >> ›
> >> <a href="../">
> >> {{ app_label|capfirst }}
> >> </a>
> >> ›
> >> {{ cl.opts.verbose_name_plural|capfirst }}
> >> </div>
> >> {% endblock %}
> >>
> >>
> >> To perform something like this, we should copy all the change_list
> >> template (i.e. 100 lines of code), in order to add this two changes.
> >> For this subject I created a google-code project [1], wich is working
> >> in a little project of Universidad de Granada [2] succesfully.
> >>
> >> I wait for yours feedback, and I hope this could be usefull
> >
> > Hi Pablo,
> >
> > So, from what I can work out, this is a proposal for an {% extends %}
> > tag which allows you to extend from the parent template of the same name
> > (so it looks back in the list of possible templates, and picks the one
> > that comes before yours, in your case inheriting from the admin version
> > of the template with the same name?
> >
> > I'd like to know what sort of use cases you think this is necessary in -
> > in the example you provide, admin/change_list.html, the recommended way
> > of doing what you're doing would be to set change_list_template on the
> > ModelAdmin class to point to a different template which itself inherits
> > from admin/change_list.html, rather than having two with the same name,
> > which could be potentially confusing.
> >
> > Andrew
> >
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