March 2020
Intermediate to advanced
608 pages
17h 17m
English
Content preview from Django 3 Web Development Cookbook - Fourth Edition
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How it works...
The base template contains the <head> and <body> sections of the HTML document, with all the details that are reused on each page of the website. Depending on the web design requirements, you can have additional base templates for different layouts. For example, we can add the base_simple.html file, which has the same HTML <head> section and a very minimalistic <body> section, and this can be used for the login screen, password reset, or other simple pages. You can have separate base templates for other layouts as well, such as single-column, two-column, and three-column layouts, where each extends base.html and overwrites the blocks as needed.
Let's look into the details of the base.html template that we defined earlier. ...