masking only a small part of a template

[tWoolie]

I have a template in a 3rd party app that i'm trying to override, but only a single block. 

Is there any way that I can do this without copy-pasting the entire template into the global templates dir just to change a few lines?

Is there any way to create a template that "extends" itself from further down the search tree?

[yati sagade]

I'm not sure by what you mean; There has always been template inheritance in Django :) Just specify the template you want to extend as the first statement in the template and to override a block in the template, just start a block with the same name as the block you want to override. For example, to override a block called "main" in "some_3rd_party/base.html",  you'd do something like:

    {% extends "some_3rd_party/base.html" %}
    ...
    {% block main %}
       <your stuff>
    {% endblock %}
    ...

All the blocks you don't override in the base template get included in the resultant template as is. Sorry if you already knew all that :)

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[tWoolie]

Sorry, I should have been clearer. What I have is an external project that is included "as-is". It has it's templates and it's views are hardcoded against the template names.
I want to know if it's possible to create a template called, say, "app/dashboard.html" in the global template dir that then extends "app/dashboard.html" in the app's template directory, thereby allowing me to change ONLY the block I need to change, without requiring me to copy-paste the entire template and re-edit every time I update that app.

[Tomas Neme]

http://djangosnippets.org/snippets/1376/

this is what you want, I'm using it and it works like a charm

you override in templates/path/to/template.html and do

{% extends "app:path/to/template.html" %}, and this loader searches in
`app`'s template dir by default

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I think he means to override a template without changing it's name (since you don't control 3rd party app's views and the templates they call, most times). I've found a snippet to do this as {% extends "app:template/path.html" %}, a custom template loader. I don't have the code right now, but may be you can find it.

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De: yati sagade
Enviados: 09/07/2012 01:44:33
Asunto: Re: masking only a small part of a template

I'm not sure by what you mean; There has always been template inheritance
in Django :) Just specify the template you want to extend as the first
statement in the template and to override a block in the template, just
start a block with the same name as the block you want to override. For
example, to override a block called "main" in "some_3rd_party/base.html",
you'd do something like:

{% extends "some_3rd_party/base.html" %}
...
{% block main %}
<your stuff>
{% endblock %}
...

All the blocks you don't override in the base template get included in the
resultant template as is. Sorry if you already knew all that :)

On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 7:36 AM, tWoolie <rocker....@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a template in a 3rd party app that i'm trying to override, but only
> a single block.
> Is there any way that I can do this without copy-pasting the entire
> template into the global templates dir just to change a few lines?
> Is there any way to create a template that "extends" itself from further
> down the search tree?
>

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