OK, I think I get you now. You can swamp out everything in the layout.html
file but always remember to include the {{include}} directive in the file.
(this is a must for other views to be able to "extend" the layout file) and
also include the web2py_ajax.html file in the header for ajaxy stuff like
response.flash et.al. Thats all you really need.
On Sunday, July 15, 2012 3:27:48 PM UTC+1, pylix wrote:
>
> sorry I phrased the question so poorly, to be honest,
> ultimately I wanted to know if i could replace all the contents
> of layout.html without breaking things. (there's a lot of stuff in there)
> I have my own layout file that I would like to use, and the {{include}}
> seems like what I needed to know.
>
> but the reason I asked how {{extend}} works
> is because I have a main div that I would
> like the new un-inherited content to go to
> like, I don't want it to start writing at the footer :/
> and I'm not sure if extend will work out of the box
> in this case.
>
> Is there a special format that templates should conform to?
>
> On Sunday, July 15, 2012 9:44:30 AM UTC-4, Pystar wrote:
>>
>> I am not too sure if I get your question but I would try to answer it the
>> best way I can. In your base template which is "layout.html" there should
>> be a web2py directive contained within that html file i.e. {{include}},
>> when you add this directive i.e. {{extend "layout.html"}} in other html
>> files that extend or build upon the layout file, you are telling web2py to
>> include all the contents of the child template i.e. the template extending
>> the layout file into the layout file.
>> I pray that explanation wasn't too confusing?
>>
>> On Sunday, July 15, 2012 10:50:24 AM UTC+1, pylix wrote:
>>>
>>> hello,
>>>
>>> I'm wondering what exactly happens when you extend from an html file
>>> such as layout.html
>>> i.e {{extend 'layout.html'}}
>>>
>>> I have my own html/css/js file combo that I would like to use as a base
>>> for my small web app, but I’m unsure of the best way to go about it.
>>>
>>
