Flatpages are great for simple html content. However, I wanted some way to associate a navigation menu (just a snippet of HTML) with one or more FlatPage objects. Additionally, I wanted to be able to edit these throught the Admin. This was my solution.
My admin allows editing of some html fields using TinyMCE, so I end up with horrible code that contains lots of nested `<p>`, `<div>`, `<span>` tags, and style properties which destroy my layout and consistence. This tag based on lxml tries to kill as much unneeded tags as possible, and style properties. These properties can be customized by adapting the regex to your needs.
Put it in appname/templatetags/truncatehtml.py and load it with {% load truncatehtml %}, then for instance {{ some_story|truncatehtml:100 }} to truncate the story to 100 characters. Tags are not counted in the length given, and character entities count as one character. The filter should never break an open-tag text close-tag sequence without adding in the close tag. It will also preserve character entities. It won't sanitize the HTML, though: garbage in, garbage out. There's a bit more info about how it works in a [blog post](http://ole-laursen.blogspot.com/2009/05/safe-truncation-of-html.html) I wrote.
Development middleware to ensure that responses validate as HTML.
Personally I hate using markdown for text input just so it can be converted into HTML. Markdown languages almost always don't support some thing I want to do; thus, why not just use HTML in the first place. Well because you don't want anybody posting any kind of HTML on your site. Solution, instead of making your users learn markdown, let them enter HTML and filter out bad tags. This is a filter I use to filter HTML for only certain allowed tags. The allowed tags can be configured with the **allowedhtml** list. To make your text input even more user friendly use a Javascript HTML editor like [FCK Editor](http://www.fckeditor.net/) so your users will have a nice GUI editor.
Much stolen from base `truncate_html_words`. The difference is that this filter takes a number of characters as its argument and truncates to the nearest word boundary less than that count, rather than specifying a number of words.
This should work as a `django.views.generic.list_detail` generic view but will produce PDF version of given template. This code is merged code from perenzo's [example](http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/659/) and code from `django.views.generic.list_detail` module. `pisa` package is required from (http://www.htmltopdf.org/download.html) with `html5lib` package and Reportlab Toolkit 2.1+ NOTE: this is code for Django 0.96. In Django 1.0 change in line 3: ObjectPaginator to Paginator
This code improves on Django's render_to_response shortcut function in the following ways: 1. If the caller does not provide a MIME type, and the caller is passing a RequestContext, it interrogates the request to determine if the HTTP client supports application/xhtml+xml encoding. If so, it sets the request type to application/xhtml+xml to override the HttpRequest class's default mime type of text/html. 2. It caches parsed templates in its own cache to improve performance. If you aren't using XHTML in your templates, you may choose to comment out the code that tests for and sets the application/xhtml+xml MIME type. I place this code in a file named "util.py" in my application. In my views, I write "from app.util import render_to_response" where I used to write "from django.shortcuts import render_to_response". Note that the caching functionality provided by this code means that you will need to recycle your Django instance when you make template changes. Instructions for doing this depend on how you have deployed your Django application.
** Help me get better! If you vote (either way) please leave a comment if you have time and say what was good or bad. I appreciate any and all feedback. Thanks! ** I keep finding places in my apps where I need an isolated snippet of text that can periodically be changed from the admin interface. Most often it's html but sometimes it's text, javascript, or css. Use it like so: (Assuming this snippet lives in snippy_snip/models.py and there is a snippet named "Welcome Message" in the database) from snippy_snip.models import snip msg = snip("Welcome Message") Or, you might populate a parameter hash for a template: def showpage(request): params = { 'welcome': snip('Welcome Message'), 'video1': snip('Video 1'), 'NavHeader': snip('Nav.SectionHeader'), } return render_to_response("main.html", params) For clarity, *params* might look something like this: welcome -> "Welcome to our site. Please use the menu on the left..." video1 - > a YouTube snippet NavHeader -> Some HTML which comprises the top of a navigation menu. This is a very simple bit of code but I've found it very useful. It isn't intended for instant changes... Your snippets will cache like anything else, which may cause confusion if you expect immediate changes. And it's probably not great for a high traffic site, but for my moderate traffic sites and workgroup apps I've found it useful. (This code was created for 0.96, but I'm working to bring it into alignment with the latest svn version of Django, see comments.)
This custom filter takes in a string and breaks it down by newline then makes each separate line an item in an unordered list. Note that it does not add the <ul> </ul> tags to give the user a chance to add attributes to the list. This is based of the 'linebreaks' filter built in django
This filter converts a XHTML-compatible shorttag `<input ... />` to a HTML4-compatible tag `<input ...>`. Example: `{% for field in form %} <dt>{{ field.label_tag }}</dt> <dd> {{ field.errors }} {{ field|remove_shorttag }} </dd> {% endfor %}` This will produce html4-compatible output, opposed to newform's normal XHTML output.
This simple middleware replaces all 'a href' links to the current page to the 'span' elements. This very usefule from the usability point of view. For example, user open in bowser page http://svetlyak.ru/blog/, and this middleware will replace all 'a' elements on this page, which refer to the '/blog/'. Because of this, link 'Blog' in the main menu, become a simple 'span'. Next, when user goes to the next page, a post with full comments list ('/blog/123/'), for example, the item 'Blog' in the main menu become a link again! To use this middleware, just add it to the list of middleware classes: MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = ('utils.middleware.RemoveSelfLinks',)
This custom filter is helpful if you want to convert plain text to include html line breaks but you aren't sure if the text is actually plain text or if it already contains html line breaks. First the filter looks for if the text contains any br, p, or table tags, if it does the text is returned as is. If it doesn't then the same functionality as the [linebreaks](http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/templates/#linebreaks) filter is applied to the text.
This is an extract of an example for use of "pisa" <http://www.htmltopdf.org> in "django". It shows the easiest way possible to create PDF documents just using HTML and CSS. In "index" we see the definition of the output of a form in which HTML code can be typed in and then on the fly a PDF will be created. In "ezpdf_sample" we see the use of templates and contexts. So adding PDF to your existing Django project could be just a matter of some lines of code.
A simple widget library to provide HTML4 widgets for HTML validation fanatics.