Break page template tag
Published on May 31, 2007Just looking over some of the posts here I realised that many of them are very long. Django's template system will let you truncate a piece of text using the truncatewords:N tag but this often is not what you want.
For this site if i decide to truncate all my posts at say 200 words then it is possible that a <code> or <p> tag will be left open, which will mess up the appearance of the page.
It would be nicer if I could just tell the template system where to break my post so that bad things don't happen or that a post is broken with only a few words to go.
This little piece of code should implement this, breaking the page when it finds BREAKHERE on it's own on a line.
app/templatetags/breakhere.py
from django import template
import string
register = template.Library()
# register the templatetag
@register.filter("breakhere")
def breakhere(content, hide="True"):
out = ''
for line in string.split(content,"\n"):
print repr(line)
if line == 'BREAKHERE\r':
if hide == "False":
continue
return out
out += line
return out
templates/app/foo.html
{% load breakhere %}
{% block content %}
{{ object.content|breakhere }}
{% endblock %}
When you don't want to break the page use {{ object.content|breakhere:"False" }}
July 12, 2007 at 9:33 a.m.
Why don't you just try to split your content on BREAKHERE? Like that:
first_part, second_part = content.split('BREAKHERE')
with appropriated try...except of course.