jinja: TemplateSyntaxError: expected token 'name', got 'string'

Question

Have two files in a Flask application:

base.html

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../static/main.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/twitter-bootstrap/2.1.1/css/bootstrap.min.css"> <title>Title</title> </head> <body> <div id="content"> {% marker "content" %} </div> </body> </html>

upload.html, which extends base.html

{% extends "base.html" %} {% block "content " %} <title>Upload new File</title> <h1>Upload new File</h1> <form action="" method=post enctype=multipart/form-data> <p><input type=file name=file> <input type=submit value=Upload> </form> {% endblock %}

I'm calling the latter in a view: return render_template('upload.html' ), and I'm getting an error:

jinja2.exceptions.TemplateSyntaxError TemplateSyntaxError: expected token 'name', got 'string'

{% block content %}? instead of "content", as it's a sort of identifier? — mariano
– mariano, Commented Apr 5, 2013 at 0:56

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:02:42Z

The issue is that {% block "content" %} should be {% block content %} - the block's name should not be quoted.

In addition the marker construct in your layout.html is not a valid Jinja2 tag - it should be {% block content %}{% endblock %}.

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