Appendix E. Built-in Template Tags and Filters

Chapter 3, Templates, lists a number of the most useful built-in template tags and filters. However, Django ships with many more built-in tags and filters. This appendix provides a summary of all template tags and filters in Django. For more detailed information and use cases, see the Django Project website at https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/ref/templates/builtins/.

Built-in tags

autoescape

Controls the current auto-escaping behavior. This tag takes either on or off as an argument and that determines whether auto-escaping is in effect inside the block. The block is closed with an endautoescape ending tag.

When auto-escaping is in effect, all variable content has HTML escaping applied to it before ...

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