Template Inheritance
Explore Django template inheritance to efficiently manage common elements like navigation bars by creating base templates. Understand how child templates can override specific blocks to maintain consistent design across your site while avoiding repetitive HTML code.
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Introduction
Template inheritance is the most powerful and complex part of Django’s template engine. It allows us to build a base “skeleton” template that contains all of the common elements of our site, and defines blocks that child templates can override.
Why do we need template inheritance?
We need template inheritance because it saves us a lot of repetitive work and makes it much easier to maintain the same base look and feel across our entire website. Let’s understand template inheritance with an example. Suppose we have a navbar in ...