Default and Specific Titles Using Django Blocks
If you are extending a base template, here's how to have a default or specific title on your page.
nicksensei
1 min read
May 27, 2021
If you have a base template base.html and you want to have a default title most the time, but also provide specific titles, here's one way to do it.
In your base.html, add a block named title inside of your <title> tags:
<html>
<head>
<title>
{% block title %}Default Title{% endblock %}
</title>
...The key here is to add a default title in-between {% block title %} and {% endblock %}
Then in a template where you are extending base.html, add a title block if you want to provide a custom title.
{% extends "base.html" %}
{% block title %}Custom Title{% endblock %}
...