Django Project Blueprints

Translating our static content

The first thing that we want to do is translate all the static content on our site. This includes all the headlines, links, and form labels that you have seen in the preceding three screens. To translate strings that are used in templates, Django provides us with a trans template tag. Let's take a look at how to use it first in a simple context, and then I'll go into the details of how it works. This is a slightly long section as we will do a lot of things here that make up the foundation of the translation feature of Django.

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Don't be alarmed if you don't understand something. Just keep following the instructions. I'll go into a lot of depth about each step, but first I want to show you exactly how translations ...