How to set block variable in view code?

[Daniel Grace]

I am struggling to understand block tags.  I have two block tags in my HTML template as follows:

<h2>

{% block side_hdr %}{% endblock%}

</h2>

{% block content %}{% endblock %}

How (if possible) do I set these tags in my class based view?

class TestView(TemplateView):

    template_name = "base.html"

Thanks.

[Lachlan Musicman]

You don't set the block tags in the view. You set the variables in the
view - in this example you set var_1_from_view (a single object) and
var_2_from_view (a collection/list of sorts)

<h2>

{% block side_hdr %}{% endblock%}

</h2>

{% block content %}

{{ var_1_from_view }}

{% for item in var_2_from_view %}
{{ item }}
{% endfor %}

{% endblock %}

When using GenericViews (like TemplateView) there is usually already a
named variable to be sent to the template, like

{{ object }}
{{ object.name }}
{% if object.colour is green %}
{{ object.date_made }}
{% endif %}


This is probably the better example than TemplateViews

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/class-based-views/generic-display/#generic-views-of-objects

cheers
L.

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