django-inheritance – Tarik Billa

Django templates: overriding blocks of included children templates through an extended template

August 31, 2023 by Tarik

It seems to be little known that you can use the with keyword with the include to pass variables into the context of an included template – you can use it to specify includes in the included template: # base.html <html> <body> {% block header %}{% include “header.html” %}{% endblock %} </body> </html> # header.html … Read more

In Django – Model Inheritance – Does it allow you to override a parent model’s attribute?

December 21, 2022 by Tarik

Updated answer: as people noted in comments, the original answer wasn’t properly answering the question. Indeed, only the LongNamedRestaurant model was created in database, Place was not. A solution is to create an abstract model representing a “Place”, eg. AbstractPlace, and inherit from it: class AbstractPlace(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length=20) rating = models.DecimalField() class Meta: abstract … Read more