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Answer 1

+1 A:

I don't think you can replace a block from an included template. My suggestion is that you need to rethink the logic of your templates. IMHO it should be something like this:

base.html

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"      "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"&gt;
    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;
    <head>
 <title>{% block title %}{% endblock %}</title> 
 <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/media/css/base.css" />
  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/media/css/login.css" />
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="/site_media/css/style.css" type="text/css" />
  <!--[if lte IE 7]><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/media/css/ie.css" /><![endif]-->
 </head>
  <body class="{% block bodyclass %}{% endblock %}">
  {% block content %}

     <div id="content">

         {% block navigation %}
             <ul id="top">
                <li><a class="{% block home %}{% endblock %}" href="/">Home</a></li>
                <li><a class="{% block myaccount %}{% endblock %}" href="/profile/">My Account</a></li>
                {% if perms.staffing.add_staffrequest %}
                 <li><a class="{% block createsr %}{% endblock %}" 
                  href="/create/staffrequest/">Staff Request</a></li>
                {% endif %}
             </ul>
         {% endblock %}

         {% block real_content %}
         <div id="intro">
             <p>Hello, {{ user.first_name }}.</p>
             <p>Please create a Staff Request here by filling out the form below.</p>
          </div> <!-- end intro -->

          <div id="logout">
           <a href="/accounts/logout" alt="Sign Off" title="Sign Off">Sign Off</a>
          </div>
          {% endblock %}

     </div> <!-- end content -->


  {% endblock %} 
  {% block footer %}{% endblock %}
 </body> 
 </html>

and your home.html should look like

{% extends "base.html" %}
{% block title %}Home Portal{% endblock %}

{% block home %}current{% endblock %}


{% block real_content %}

<div id="content">

 <div id="intro">
  <p>Hello, {{ user.first_name }}.</p>
  <p>Please create a Staff Request here by filling out the form
  below.</p>
 </div> <!-- end intro -->
 <div id="logout">
  <a href="/accounts/logout" alt="Sign Off" title="Sign Off">Sign Off</a>
 </div>
</div> <!-- end content -->

{% endblock %}

ikkebr 2009-11-27 02:43:48

Answer 2

+1 A:

The other way people handle this is to just use the body.class in the CSS file...

nav.html

 <ul id="top">
   <li><a class="home" href="/">Home</a></li>
   <li><a class="myaccount" href="/profile/">My Account</a></li>
   {% if perms.staffing.add_staffrequest %}
    <li><a class="createsr" 
     href="/create/staffrequest/">Staff Request</a></li>
   {% endif %}
  </ul>

home.html

{% block bodyclass %}home{% endblock %}

your css file

body.home li.home { font-weight: bold; color: blue; }
body.myaccount li.myaccount { font-weight: bold; color: blue; }
body.createsr li.createsr { font-weight: bold; color: blue; }

It breaks DRY but sometimes it's simpler than messing with some crazy blocked templates.

T. Stone 2009-11-27 05:53:52

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