I'm not sure I understand your end goal. You /can/ extend your includes,
you'd just include the extended template. E.g.:
sidenav_base.html
<!-- basic side nav stuff -->
sidenav_specific.html
{% extends "sidenav_base.html" %}
<!-- specific side nav stuff -->
base.html
{% include "sidenav_specific.html" %}
Or if you're then extending base.html and want a different side nav,
then put that last bit in a block:
{% block sidenav %}
{% include "sidenav_base.html" %}
{% endblock %}
And then in your subclass of base.html:
{% extends "base.html" %}
{% block sidenav %}
{% include "sidenav_specific.html" %}
{% endblock %}
_Nik
On 4/25/2013 5:13 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> Let us assume that I have 5 files like this that are included by
> base.html via "include". How would I then extend each of those? Looks
> like once you include a couple pages, you have no way of extending
> them each, because you have to render one child template.
>
> Perhaps the best practice is to mix multiple views into one page, but
> I have no experience with django so I don't know.
>
> Bahadir
>
> On Thursday, April 25, 2013 12:22:52 PM UTC-7, Nikolas
> Stevenson-Molnar wrote:
>
> The include would probably help you here:
> https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.5/ref/templates/builtins/#include
> <https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.5/ref/templates/builtins/#include>
>
>
> _Nik
>
> On 4/25/2013 11:56 AM, [email protected] <javascript:> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I want to divide a page into parts, such as sidenav.html,
> topnav.html
> > and so on such that the base.html is not cluttered with details
> of the
> > complex topnav or sidebar. Problem is Django template
> inheritence can
> > only have one to one parent child relationship and I cannot have
> > multiple html child templateslike this. What would be the best
> way to
> > go with this?
> >
> > Some of my examples:
> >
> > sidebar.html
> > {% extends "base.html" %}
> > {% block sidebar %{
> > <!-- Lots of code about sidebar, unrelated to main page -->
> > {% endblock %}
> >
> > head.html
> > {% extends "base.html" %}
> > {% block head %{
> > <!-- Lots of code about html head tag, unrelated to main page -->
> > {% endblock %}
> >
> > topnav.html
> > {% extends "base.html" %}
> > {% block topnav %{
> > <!-- Lots of code about topnav, unrelated to main page -->
> > {% endblock %}
> >
> >
> > ... and base.html as simple as below:
> > {% load staticfiles %}
> > <html>
> > {% block head %}{% endblock head %}
> > <body>
> > {% block topnav %}{% endblock topnav %}
> > {% block container %}{% endblock container %}
> > {% block sidebar %}{% endblock sidebar %}
> > </body>
> > </html>
> >
> > If what I am doing above is not best practice, what is the best
> > practice to divide pages into concepts like this? This is just the
> > beginning, essentially I want to insert more levels into this
> > hierarchy, encapsulating details in different levels so that it
> is a
> > maintainable program.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Bahadir
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