Carlton GibsonExciting to see people start to pick up template-partials with Django 6.0.
“Wait until you hit upon using them for form field templates”, I quietly whisper 🥳
Andy Miller@carlton 👀 such a tease! a quick blog post perhaps?
@nanorepublica “quick” and “blog post” just sat there next to each other 😝
@carlton haha 😂 maybe just a code snippet then?
@nanorepublica OK, so...
https://github.com/django/django/compare/main...carltongibson:django:tweaks/simplify-form-templates
... is the start.
Don't know if there'd be appetite for that in #django? (cc @davidsmith )
Adam Johnson 
@adamchainz @nanorepublica @davidsmith Yeah, it's a lot simpler.
But it's the super powers it unlocks that are most fun. 🤩
(Yes, @nanorepublica, busy writing ✍️)
David Smith@carlton @adamchainz @nanorepublica
Nice. 👍 (assuming we are happy to adjust the output)
If I had a magic wand I'd change the api so that you can avoid unpacking (field, errors) where `errors` is unused.
Thomas Thomassen@carlton I made my own crude partials exactly because of form fields. I'm keen to upgrade to 6.0 and replace that.
Marijke Luttekes@carlton I overrode a form renderer at some point in the past, and it was ugly.
I also needed specific HTML classes based on input type for styling, which, luckily, has been superseded by CSS's `:has()` selector.
Such a long way from this clean template solution, and I love it.
@mahryekuh it’s got a lot nicer in recent years. Partials is the little cherry on top, allowing really neat per field overrides 🍒
(Yes @nanorepublica busy writing ✍️)
@carlton if you want to define a partial in a separate file for reuse across your app, what is the pattern for that? The docs seem to demonstrate definition and use within the same file?
@onionarmy that would just be an include, same as ever.
@carlton hm.. I see the docs mention; "Template partials can also be included using the include template tag with the same # directive:"
Though I still get "Partial 'journal-metadata' is not defined in the current template."
That's with using;
{% include "example.html#journal-metadata" %}
I have to dig further into that.
But do partials have to be included one by one? Can you import all partials in bulk?
Something like:
{% include "example.html %}
?
@onionarmy you reference them by name individually. I’d just suggest you play with them. They’re fun! 🤩
@carlton hm.. for some reason the include syntax for partials doesn't load the partials for me. Doing a normal include of the file that contains it works, so the template file is found.
I'll ask in the forums.
I'll ask in the forums.