How to avoid {{or}} in a django template?

Question

Django considers {{ var }} as some variable in its template. How can I avoid {{ var }} or {{ or }} so that django does not treat it as a variable.

<p>"{{ some text }}"</p> Should print exactly the same.

Answer 1

I believe you are looking for the templatetag tag.

As states associated with the doc,

Since the template system does not have the concept of “escaping,” you must use the {% templatetag %} tag to display one of the bits used in the template tags.

For example:

 <p>"{% templatetag openvariable %} some text {% templatetag closevariable %}"</p> 

will appear like this:

 <p>"{{ some text }}"</p> 

Answer 2

Django 1.5 introduced the {% verbatim %} template tag. It stops the template from parsing the contents of this tag:

 {% verbatim %} {{ var }} {% endverbatim %} 

will display as:

 {{ var }} 

Answer 3

Edit: I really do not recommend this because it is not very clean, but it is still an option.

I was looking for the one I could use with jQuery templates, and decided how to do this without tags or filters. This is as short as possible than I could:

 {{ "{{ any text }" }}} 

Printed as:

 {{ any text }} 

Why does it work? Any text inside {{}} is displayed as is if it does not have two closing brackets}} in the line. Then there are three brackets in a row, django interprets the first two as the end of the variable, leaving one additional closing figure.

Answer 4

You can try escaping using html characters, for example:

{= {

} = }

 <p>"&#123;&#123; some text &#125;&#125;"</p> 

Try to do this in your browser.

Answer 5

if you just need to use {{}} as a variable for the template structure, for example angularjs, then maybe simpler:

in <app path>/templatetags/ngvar.py , add

 from django import template register = template.Library() @register.simple_tag def ngvar(var_name): return "{{%s}}" % var_name 

and in the do pattern

 {% load ngvar %} {% ngvar "variable name" %} 

if ngvar.py is the first template tag, be sure to add the __init__.py file to the templatetags directory

Answer 6

Although the above answers may solve the original problem, I add some hacks here for those who scratch their heads like me.

Several times we want to display a single bracket followed by a variable. For example, in BibTeX there might be something similar to this:

 @MISC{hu2012-spectral, author = {Hu, Pili}, title = {Spectral Clustering Survey}, howpublished = {GitHub, https://github.com/hupili/tutorial/tree/master/spectral-clustering}, month = {May}, year = {2012} } 

These bib fields come from template variables. If you write

 title = {{{title}}}, 

jinja cannot compile and raise an error. If you write

 title = { {{title}} }, 

there will be extra spaces. Clap around - store '{' and '}' as variables and use later.

 {% set lb = '{' %} {% set rb = '}' %} ... @MISC{{lb}}{{ meta.bib_key }}, author = {{lb}}Hu, Pili{{rb}}, title = {{lb}}{{ meta.title }}{{rb}}, howpublished = {{lb}}GitHub, https://github.com/hupili/tutorial/tree/master/{{ auto.path}}{{rb}}, month = {{lb}}{{ meta.month }}{{rb}}, year = {{lb}}{{ meta.year }}{{rb}} } 

It looks awkward, but it's the best I find so far. If you have a cleaner solution, please tell me.

Answer 7

Another option would be to add a word joiner (zero width without space) between each brace:

 <p>"{&#8288;{ some text }&#8288;}"</p> 

Answer 8

This template tag (designed for use with jQuery templates) can do the trick. This allows you to wrap content that you do not want Django to interpret as variables with a template tag.

Answer 9

Jinja, which is used for templates, offers some screening suggestions here. What works best for me is to use something like "{% raw %}{{ some text }}{% endraw %}"

Answer 10

it can be resolved by using adjacent angular edges if its internal javascript code you can write

 '{'+'{address.'+key+'}}' 

I used this to print jinja variables into another template using javascript.