Django Template: Displaying variable with optional content

Question

The code below is what I do when I have content with before to display:

{% if content %}
    <p> The variable contains: {{ content }}</p>        
{% endif %}

Isn't there a shortcuts that will help so that I don't check the value of content each time?

catavaran · Accepted Answer · 2015-01-21 14:54:46Z

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If you have some surrounding html code then {% if %} tag is the only solution.

But if you want to output some content in case if variable is empty then there are two useful filters:

{{ content|default:"no content" }}
{{ content|yesno:"content is True, content is False, content is None" }}

answered Jan 21, 2015 at 14:54

catavaran

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