Django Unleashed

6.1 Introduction

Hyperlinks, casually called links, are the key feature of the web. The ability to click on text or an image to navigate to a new webpage is a basic necessity for any website. Without this functionality, you would have to enter a URL for each and every webpage you wished to view.

For the most part, our website does not make use of links. We have skeleton links: HTML anchor <a> tags without the href attribute defined (the exception being the links in the Newslink model, but these links point to external sources, not our own webpages).

Building a link in HTML is trivial. To create a link to our tag list webpage, we could simply code <a href="/tag/">. However, maintaining the Don’t Repeat Yourself (DRY) principle in Django while ...