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Simple DRY Tabs using Django 1.3

Author:
Voightkampff
Posted:
April 28, 2011
Language:
HTML/template
Version:
1.3
Score:
3 (after 6 ratings)

I was just playing around with Django 1.3 and came across the new 'with' addition to the include tag. I thought this was a super elegant way to implement a DRY tab menu without having to move menu code into the views. Enjoy!

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**Placed in templates/includes/tabs.html**

<ul class="tab-menu">
    <li class="{% if active_tab == 'tab1' %} active{% endif %}"><a href="#">Tab 1</a></li>
    <li class="{% if active_tab == 'tab2' %} active{% endif %}"><a href="#">Tab 2</a></li>
    <li class="{% if active_tab == 'tab3' %} active{% endif %}"><a href="#">Tab 3</a></li>
</ul>



**Placed in your page template**

{% include "includes/tabs.html" with active_tab='tab1' %}

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Comments

cferreir (on August 5, 2011):

Thanks for sharing. This was very helpful. Finally got my navigation working where it supports multiple/nested menu levels and shows which ones are active.

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sergzach (on March 26, 2012):

Thank you! When I created a snippet #2722 I did not take into account the option with of inclusion tag.

I think your solution is better.

My decision have only one plus (your have several ones). In case of #2722 inheritance is possible. Sometimes it is more convenient and conceptual than inclusion.

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sergzach (on March 26, 2012):

And one more plus in #2722. In your case if you want to mek whole fragment different (not only class attribute) you should write several times very similar code for each option. But I would like DRY menu.

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sergzach (on March 27, 2012):

Now I use your snippet instead of mine. Thanks a lot!

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ccarnell (on August 2, 2012):

This is such a clean solution; thank you so much for taking the time to share this!

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jnns (on June 18, 2013):

Thanks for this, I didn't know about {% include with %}. This is great!

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