Carlton Gibson has addressed my feature
request: https://github.com/carltongibson/django-template-partials
On Friday, July 15, 2022 at 8:21:52 PM UTC-4 Dan Swain wrote:
> With the growing uptake of technologies like HTMX, I would like to see an
> additional parameter added to render_to_string(). In my rewritten
> definition of render_to_string() below (taken from the docs), I have named
> the parameter “part”. In rendering portions of a template for responses to
> ajax calls, these template portions end up being stored in separate
> template snippet files and then {% include(d) %} in the main template. I
> think that keeping everything related to a view in a single template file
> is much more desirable. Therefore, just include *part=selector* in order
> to pull out the part of the template that is needed for rendering. The
> file structure for managing templates would become much simpler with this
> approach.
>
>
>
> *render_to_string**(**template_name**, part=None, **context=None**, *
> *request=None**, **using=None**)¶
> <https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.0/topics/templates/#django.template.loader.render_to_string>*
>
> *render_to_string()* loads a template like *get_template()*
> <https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.0/topics/templates/#django.template.loader.get_template>
> and
> calls its *render()* method immediately. It takes the following arguments.
>
> *template_name*
>
> The name of the template to load and render. If it’s a list of template
> names, Django uses *select_template()*
> <https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.0/topics/templates/#django.template.loader.select_template>
> instead
> of *get_template()*
> <https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.0/topics/templates/#django.template.loader.get_template>
> to
> find the template.
>
> *part*
>
> An optional CSS selector that will be used to cause only the portion of
> the template that matches the selector to be rendered.
>
> *context*
>
> A *dict* <https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#dict> to be
> used as the template’s context for rendering.
>
> *request*
>
> An optional *HttpRequest*
> <https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.0/ref/request-response/#django.http.HttpRequest>
> that
> will be available during the template’s rendering process.
>
> *using*
>
> An optional template engine *NAME*
> <https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.0/ref/settings/#std-setting-TEMPLATES-NAME>.
>
> The search for the template will be restricted to that engine.
>
>
>
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