So I am trying to render a django template variable, but for some reason it is not rendering out.
I have the following code:
Views.py
...
def get_search(request, *args, **kwargs):
context = {}
context = {"test":"abcde"}
return render(request, 'search.html', context)
...
Urls.py
urlpatterns = [
path("", home_view),
path("articles/", include("papers.urls")),
path("admin/", admin.site.urls),
path("search/", search_view),
path("submit/", submit_article_view, name="submit"),
] + static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)
search.html
{extends 'base.html'}
{% block content %}
<p> {{ test }} hi </p>
...
{% endblock %}
base.html
{% load static %}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Title</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type ="text/css" href="{% static 'css/stylesheet.css' %}">
</head>
<header>
{% include 'navbar.html' %}
</header>
<body>
{% block content %}
{% endblock %}
</body>
<footer>
{% include 'footer.html' %}
</footer>
</html>
Now, whenever I run the server and go to the search page, everything else gets rendered out, but the {{ test }} doesn't. The 'hi' does get rendered out. I have followed every tutorial and StackOverflow question out there, to no avail. Anyone has any idea what might be going on?
Also, StackOverflow newbie, let me know if I did something wrong regarding that :).
The problem was that I was rendering a different view, which also used the search.html. Hence why everything was the same, except for the template variable. With now putting the context into the correct view, search_view it renders properly.
search_view