Re: [Cheetahtemplate-discuss] Basic use of #extends

[Chris S. <ch...@si...>]

Ok so I worked it out last night. What wasn't obvious to me (which perhaps
would have been had I read the user guide in its entirety) was that you
create your HTML template (base.tmpl) first. You then run the "cheetah
compile /path/to/base.tmpl" which creates your base.py file. I followed the
same steps for my page template and then everything fell into place.
Hopefully I've not wasted anyone's time.

Thanks,
Chris.

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Chris Stoyles <ch...@si...> wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> I am trying to do something which I think should be fairly trivial, but am
> yet to work out how to do it in Cheetah. I want a base template for my site
> (base.html) with a block in it (#block main_content) which I can fill-out or
> override in another template.
>
> In Django I would include the following statement at the top of my other
> template:
> {extends "/var/www/my/app/templates/base.html"}
>
> Then to fill in one of the blocks defined in base.html I would just do
> this:
> {% block main_content %}
> ...html...
> {% endblock %}
>
> I've tried my best to understand this page:
> http://www.cheetahtemplate.org/docs/users_guide_html_multipage/inheritanceEtc.extends.html but
> with no luck.
>
> Hopefully someone out there can quickly explain to me how I should go about
> this.
>
> Thanks,
> Chris.
>