variables – Django Templates

A Django template is a text document or a Python string marked-up using the Django template language. Django being a powerful Batteries included framework provides convenience to rendering data in a template. Django templates not only allow passing data from view to template, but also provides some limited features of a programming such as variables, for loops, etc. 
This article revolves about how to use a variable in Template. A variable outputs a value from the context, which is a dict-like object mapping keys to values. 
 

Syntax:

{{ variable_name }}

Example:
Variables are surrounded by {{ and }} like this:  

My first name is {{ first_name }}. My last name is {{ last_name }}. 

With a context of {‘first_name’: ‘Naveen’, ‘last_name’: ‘Arora’}, this template renders to:  

My first name is Naveen. My last name is Arora.

variables- Django templates Explanation

Illustration of How to use variables in Django templates using an Example. Consider a project named geeksforgeeks having an app named geeks. 

Refer to the following articles to check how to create a project and an app in Django.  

• How to Create a Basic Project using MVT in Django?
• How to Create an App in Django ?

Now create a view through which we will pass the context dictionary, 
In geeks/views.py, 

Create a url path to map to this view. In geeks/urls.py, 

Create a template in templates/geeks.html, 

Let’s check is variables are displayed in the template.