Django-template assigns url to a variable

Question

How to assign a url to a variable in a template? I tried:

{% with url_news = url 'news' %} 

and

  {% with url 'news' as url_news %} 

Answer 1

Use as parameter of url tag

 {% url 'news' as the_url %} {% if the_url %} <a href="{{ the_url }}">Link to optional stuff</a> {% endif %} 

Note that using this syntax will fail if the URL cannot be resolved.