Built-in Template Tags Django.How

Escape

{% autoescape on %}
    {{ body }}
{% endautoescape %}

Autoescape

{% autoescape off %}
    {% firstof var1 var2 var3 "fallback value" %}
{% endautoescape %}

Comment

{% comment "Optional note" %}
    
Commented out text with {{ create_date|date:"c" }}
{% endcomment %}

Extends

{% extends "base.html" %}

Filter

{% filter force_escape|lower %}
    This text will be HTML-escaped, and will appear in all lowercase.
{% endfilter %}

Firstof

{% firstof var1 var2 var3 %}  {% firstof var1 var2 var3 "fallback value" %}

If

{% if athlete_list %}
    Number of athletes: {{ athlete_list|length }}
{% elif athlete_in_locker_room_list %}
    Athletes should be out of the locker room soon!
{% else %}
    No athletes.
{% endif %}

Ifchanged

</p> <h1>Archive for {{ year }}</h1> <p>{% for date in days %}<br /> {% ifchanged %}</p> <h3>{{ date|date:"F" }}</h3> <p>{% endifchanged %}<br /> <a href="{{ date|date:"M/d"|lower }}/">{{ date|date:"j" }}</a><br /> {% endfor %}<br />

Include

{% include "foo/bar.html" %}

Load

{% load somelibrary package.otherlibrary %}

Lorem Either w for words, p for HTML paragraphs or b for plain-text paragraph blocks

{% lorem [count] [method] [random] %}   # {% lorem 2 w random %}

Now

{% now "jS F Y H:i" %}
{% now "SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT" %} # DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, SHORT_DATE_FORMAT or SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT
{% now "Y" as current_year %}

Regroup

<br /> {% regroup cities by country as country_list %} # {% regroup cities by country.description as country_list %}</p> <ul> {% for country in country_list %}</p> <li>{{ country.grouper }} <ul> {% for city in country.list %}</p> <li>{{ city.name }}: {{ city.population }}</li> <p> {% endfor %} </ul> </li> <p>{% endfor %} </ul> <p>

Spaceless / remove white space between HTML tags

<br /> {% spaceless %}</p> <p> <a href="foo/">Foo</a> </p> <p>{% endspaceless %} # will be </p> <p><a href="foo/">Foo</a></p> <p>

Url

<br /> {% url 'some-url-name' arg1=v1 arg2=v2 %}<br /> # or<br /> {% url 'some-url-name' arg arg2 as the_url %}<br /> <a href="{{ the_url }}">I'm linking to {{ the_url }}</a><br />

With Caches a complex variable under a simpler name

{% with total=business.employees.count %}
    {{ total }} employee{{ total|pluralize }}
{% endwith %}
# or decalare vaiables
{% with alpha=1 beta=2 %}
    ...
{% endwith %}