I was wondering if it's possible to generate a nav bar. My idea was to get a list of sorts from urls.py and use a {% for %} block to ieterate through and create the navbar in the template. Any suggestions on how I could go about implementing this strategy, or if there's a better strategy?
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Not sure how you want to go about constructing your list of navigation items... Per @Doug's suggestion in the comments, you can see this question for how to dynamically build a list of available routes.
As for creating your navigation bar, you could very simply create a template for just the navigation bar and then include it in your main template.
Navigation template
<!-- navigation.html.j2 --> <nav> <ul class="nav-items"> {% for nav_item in nav_list %} <li>{{nav_item}}</li> {% end for %} </ul> </nav> Main template
<!-- main.html.j2 --> <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> ... </head> <body> {% include "navigation.html" %} <main> {% block content %}{% endblock %} </main> </body> </html> 
4 Comments
Gabriel Belini
but where does that nav_list come from? He wants a navbar of all of his urls that are in his urls.py file, how does he get them inside that list?
ngoue
@gabrielbelini hence my comment "Not sure how you want to go about constructing your list of navigation items..."
Gabriel Belini
didn't see that at first, sorry.
Douglas
There are a couple options... you could look at dynamically building the list (a lot of work... I'll see if I can find my previous answer on how to do this), or you can keep a static list that you manually update when you want to... this is typically the better option, since a dynamic list is hard to control / scale / plan for when doing UI designs.... edit: here's the link for thread on dynamically getting all of the urls / views: stackoverflow.com/questions/32933229/…
django-simple-menuapp.