I am using
{% extends "base.html" %}
I get the following error
must be the first tag in the template.
Can any one please help
place {% extends "base.html" %} in line 1 of your editor. Literally put it in line 1. REMOVE all comments at the top if you have any..
It must be the very first django template tag in your template.
Documentation says:
If you use {% extends %} in a
template, it must be the first
template tag in that template.
Template inheritance won't work,
otherwise.
Documentation can be found here
I also got into that problem.
I was using comment as the first tag it wasn't working.After I removed that it worked.
Used this:
{% comment %} inheriting the base html {% endcomment %}
To describe what I was doing.Got error.
Removed this and used extend as the first template tag.Worked!!!!
Always remember to mention the {% extends '<TEMPLATE_NAME>' %} in the first line itself, don't even try to put comments on the first line.
This will surely resolve the error!
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I'm building a django template to duplicate images based on an argument passed from the view; the template then uses Jinja2 in a for loop to duplicate the image.
BUT, I can only get this to work by passing a list I make in the view. If I try to use the jinja range, I get an error ("Could not parse the remainder: ...").
Reading this link, I swear I'm using the right syntax.
template
{% for i in range(variable) %}
<img src=...>
{% endfor %}
I checked the variable I was passing in; it's type int. Heck, I even tried to get rid of the variable (for testing) and tried using a hard-coded number:
{% for i in range(5) %}
<img src=...>
{% endfor %}
I get the following error:
Could not parse the remainder: '(5)' from 'range(5)'
If I pass to the template a list in the arguments dictionary (and use the list in place of the range statement), it works; the image is repeated however many times I want.
What am I missing? The docs on Jinja (for loop and range) and the previous link all tell me that this should work with range and a variable.
Soooo.... based on Franndy's comment that this isn't automatically supported by Django, and following their link, which leads to this link, I found how to write your own filter.
Inside views.py:
from django.template.defaulttags import register
#register.filter
def get_range(value):
return range(value)
Then, inside template:
{% for i in variable|get_range %}
<img src=...>
{% endfor %}
How can I make the generated HTML be cleaner in terms of whitespce?
Django Templating seems to be very sloppy about it.
For example, tags it recognizes, like IFs or FORs are parsed then replaced by an empty line.
Another example is when I include a file with N linkes of HTML code. If the include statement is tabbed, the first linke from the included file is indented propertly, the rest are pulled to the left.
And so on.
{% spaceless %} doesn't seem to do anything.
Is there a setting somewhere about how whitespace should be treated?
Or another solution?
Thank you.
I found this while looking for the answer to the same question and it seems like there isn't a clean and clear way to do this using the Django syntax (that I have found but I may have overlooked something) so on that note I'd recommend Jinja2. I have experience with using it for whitespace removal with SaltStack. One method is change {% this %} to {% this -%} which causes no newline to be appended so if you have a line containing only {% this -%} then it won't appear as anything in the generated html.
You can override the NodeList's render method as I've done. See my question with working code (applies only to the block and include tags):
Proper indentation in Django templates (without monkey-patching)?
There is a ticket in Django's issue tracker about having better handling of whitespace. It was closed as wontfix in 2014, with the following comment:
As far as I know, the consensus among the core team is that:
the Django template language is good enough for generating HTML, which isn't sensitive to whitespace;
the long term plan is to replace it with a better engine (most likely Jinja), not to keep working on it;
if you have more specialized needs (want to generate RTF?) just use another template engine, there are several to choose from.
For HTML output, I'm personally fine with the messy whitespace. It will have minimal effect on HTTP response sizes, if the responses are compressed.
I've had to work on a few cases where precise whitespace and newline control is important (for example, I have a template for Telegram messages, each newline will be a line break in the final message). To tidy up the template, I ended up writing a couple custom tags: {% linemode %} and {% line %}.
Example template:
{% linemode %}
{% line %}Line one.{% endline %}
This content will be ignored.
{% if True %}
{% line %}Line two.{% endline %}
{% endif %}
{% endlinemode %}
Result:
Line one.
Line two.
The idea here is that, the {% linemode %} block will throw away everything that is not also wrapped in {% line %} tags. That way, the {% if ... %} and other bits don't add unwanted spaces or newlines. Source here.
I would like to include a snippet in a template but only if the snippet file exist. Is there any way I can do it?
Now I'm just using:
{% include 'snippetName' %}
But this throws the error:
Liquid error: Could not find asset snippets/snippetName.liquid
The reason I need such a functionality is because I have a background process that adds the snippet later on.
Had this problem myself. This was my solution:
{% capture the_snippet_content %}{% include the_snippet %}{% endcapture %}
{% unless the_snippet_content contains "Liquid error" %}
{% include reviews_snippet %}
{% endunless %}
Basically capture the snippet’s content as a variable.
If there is no snippet Shopify generates the error:
Liquid error: Could not find asset
snippets/caroline-flint-reviews.liquid
So check to see if it’s generated that… if so don’t print the snippet
:D
Of course this would break if you intended your snippet to include "Liquid error" or if Shopify ever change the error message.
Extending on Jon's answer;
Create a file called snippet.liquid
{% capture snippet_content %}{% include snippet %}{% endcapture %}
{% unless snippet_content contains "Liquid error" %}
{{ snippet_content }}
{% endunless %}
Then when you want to include a file only if it exists
{% include 'snippet' with 'filename_of_include' %}
Okay, Coming here in 2021.
The include syntax is deprecated and infrequently used, also extending #a.wmly answer, this should be the latest syntax replacing include with render:
{% capture snippet_content %}{% render 'your-snippet-name' %}{% endcapture %}
{% if snippet_content contains "Could not find asset" %}
{% comment %} do nothing {% endcomment %}
{% else %}
{% render 'your-snippet-name' %}
{% endif %}
references for include vs render : https://shopify.dev/docs/themes/liquid/reference/tags/deprecated-tags#include
Alternatively, you could create your own tag which does a check on the existence of the file, before attempting to process it.
https://github.com/Shopify/liquid/wiki/Liquid-for-Programmers#create-your-own-tags
#vovafeldman Not sure why you can't have a blank snippet, but there's no file exists.
The only other option I can think of is since you are using a BG process to generate the snippet (and I assume upload it), you can always use the template API to upload the version of the template that includes the snippet at the same time.
Using the code listed above by Jon or a.wmly both still gave me errors. However, simply writing
{% include 'snippet_name' %}
worked just fine.
Note that this only worked for files located in the "snippets/" folder. So Templates, for instance, did not work using this method.
I'm trying to get Ember & Handlebars to work with Django 1.4.2 without much success. I'm using Django-ember (latest version from here): https://github.com/noirbizarre/django-ember, Handlebars.js (1.0.rc.1) & Ember.js (1.0.0-pre.2).
Following the Django-ember instructions, I've added 'ember' to the installed apps in settings, placed {% load ember %} at the top of my template, and then placed this in a block:
{% handlebars "application" %}
{{App.name}}
{% endhandlebars %}
where I've declared App with name variable in a js file.
The output is just blank however, no script tag is inserted as viewed in the browser console window (Chrome).
If I completely remove the javascript includes, the script tag is rendered - just with "{{App.name}}" left entact as expected. So it looks like, Ember/Handlebars isn't rendering the template correctly. Any ideas why?
A probably related quirk is that if I try
{% tplhandlebars "tpl-infos" %}
{{total}} {% trans "result(s)." %}
<p>{% trans "Min" %}: {{min}}</p>
<p>{% trans "Max" %}: {{max}}</p>
{% endtplhandlebars %}
it throws a template error about {% trans being an invalid tag. This can be fixed by including {% load i18n %} but seeing as this isn't in the Django-Ember instructions, I'm inclined to think this is a sign of a bigger problem; perhaps it's not designed to work with Django 1.4.2.
Update
Seems it was actually rendering after all but that it's wrapping it in a div and putting it right at the bottom of the page where I hadn't noticed it. So, now the next question is how do I get this back at it's orignal point in the html?
i have a custom template tag that takes some argument and calculates the result.
I want to compare that value obtained from that custom tag with another variable.
Custom template tag(having three arguments)
{% price_for_pax service pax '' %}
variable :
{{service.price}}
What i want is
{% if service.price == price_for_pax service pax '' %}
do something
{% endif %}
When i look for the result it does not show anything
Can i compare like this ? If not what can be the solution ?
Thanks in advance
There were a couple of questions similar to this before:
Django - use template tag and 'with'?
django templatetags template , combine {{ }} method call with template tag context variable
Making a template filter rather than a template tag could do the trick.