Nesting custom template tags

[Jon Dufresne]

Hi,

I am trying to create a custom template tag that generates a repetitive HTML snippet. This tag is an anchor tag "a" with extra classes and styles, plus some logic to apply additional classes and styles. I want the syntax in the template to look something like:

{% my_anchor URL %}this is text between opening and closing tags{% end_my_anchor %}

Where URL is set to the href attribute of the anchor tag.

The rendered result should look something like:

<a class="myclass1 myclass2" style="mystyle1; mystyle2" href="URL">this is text between opening and closing tags</a>

I also do not want to hard code my URLs. So as one might expect, I am using the "url" template tag to create correct URLs. Naively, I tried to nest the tags:

{% my_anchor {% url ... %} %}this is text between opening and closing tags{% end_my_anchor %}

But this is invalid syntax. Is there a way to handle this?

Cheers

[Kelvin Wong]

You might want to look at the code for making a tag like:

URLNode(Node)

line 408 of

https://github.com/django/django/blob/stable/1.6.x/django/template/defaulttags.py

Then extend that.

class MyAnchor(URLNode):

override the init function to accept the params your are sending and override render so that it returns the HTML that you want.

{% my_anchor URL %}this is text between opening and closing tags{% end_my_anchor %}

would yield

<a class="myclass1 myclass2" style="mystyle1; mystyle2" href="URL">this is text between opening and closing tags</a>

K