Special thanks to the author of snippet 769 who provided most of the code for this snippet. Major differences: 1.Simpler/better handling of "extends" block tag 2.Searches If/Else blocks 3.Less code 4.Allow list of templates to be passed which is closer to the behavior of render_to_response
Allows getting the rendered content of a specific block tag. Useful if you want to send just a part of a template back for an AJAX request. Works for arbitrary template inheritance, even if a block is defined in the child template but not in the parent. Example: In `test1.html`: {% block block1 %}block1 from test1{% endblock %} {% block block2 %}block2 from test1{% endblock %} In `test2.html`: {% extends 'test1.html' %} {% block block1 %}block1 from test1{% endblock %} And from the Python shell: >>> from django.template import loader, Context >>> from template import render_block_to_string >>> print render_block_to_string('test2.html', 'block1', Context({})) u'block1 from test2' >>> print render_block_to_string('test2.html', 'block2', Context({})) u'block2 from test1' UPDATE: See also [zbyte64](http://www.djangosnippets.org/users/zbyte64/)'s implementation in snippet [#942](http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/942/)
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