YES!!! This was it. I had the TAG further down the page, but it was commented out with an HTML comment. once I removed the tag altogether, the page renders fine. Is there a way to comment out the {% TAG %}s?
On Mar 15, 2012, at 11:31 AM, Joel Goldstick wrote: > On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 10:39 AM, dpbklyn <dpbk...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello and thank you in advance... >> >> In Django I have a child template that updates a base.html template. I >> keep getting an error: >> >> <ExtendsNode: extends "base.html"> must be the first tag in the >> template. >> >> When the code in the child template looks like this: >> >> {% extends "simple/base.html" %} >> >> {% block picklist %} >> >> <title></title> >> >> <h1>Simple Index</h1> #... >> I dont get why I am getting this error, when the EXTENDS tag is >> clearly the first tag. >> >> Both the base and the child template live in the same directory, in my >> template path /simple. >> >> Thank you, >> >> dp >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Django users" group. >> To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. >> > Can you post the exact first several lines of your template? Do you > repeat the {% extends tag somewhere again in your template? > > > -- > Joel Goldstick > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.