How do I populate a table with data from a list file?

[Dick Arnold]

I have created a table by using css examples (similar to a spread sheet).  However, all the examples that I have found populate the table manually  by typing td entries in the html file.  How can i accomplish this with django/Python code?  I have looked everywhere I can find, but no luck so far.

I had expected to find something like a FOR loop where I could simply point it to the list file and it would create the td entries automatically.  My data has a fixed number of columns, but a highly variable number of rows.

[Dominick Del Ponte]

I'm pretty new to django but, I think you'll need a view that fetches all of the rows from your model. This can be done with either a listView or in with something like model.objects.all() to return the context data from your view.

Then in the template you could do:

{% for item in data %}

    <td>{{ item.col1 }}</td>

    <td>{{ item.col2 }}</td>

    etc...

{% endfor %}

Relevant docs:

django tutorial: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/intro/

For loop in templates: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/ref/templates/builtins/#for

CBV listview: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/ref/class-based-views/generic-display/#listview

objects all: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/topics/db/queries/#retrieving-all-objects

Hope that helps,

Dominick

delpon...@gmail.com

On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 7:48 AM Dick Arnold <darno...@gmail.com> wrote:

I have created a table by using css examples (similar to a spread sheet).  However, all the examples that I have found populate the table manually  by typing td entries in the html file.  How can i accomplish this with django/Python code?  I have looked everywhere I can find, but no luck so far.

I had expected to find something like a FOR loop where I could simply point it to the list file and it would create the td entries automatically.  My data has a fixed number of columns, but a highly variable number of rows.

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