Here is a brief summary of each chapter:

Chapter 1 gives you an introduction to the Django template system and provides an overview of how it works.

Chapter 2 explores how URL configuration routes your requests to views and generic views. You will understand how to use generic views to streamline your project's development.

Chapter 3 explains how data from your views is exposed to the template system via the template context.

Chapter 4 reviews all of Django's built-in tags and filters, each with examples and usage notes.

Chapter 5 uses extension and inheritance to create a modular skeleton for your project's templates.

Chapter 6 teaches you how to serve multiple versions of your templates in a single Django project. You will create mobile and traditional templates and learn how to serve them from the same views.

Chapter 7 explains how to extend the template system by writing your own template tags and filters.

Chapter 8 teaches you how to use Django's pagination libraries to split the output of your applications into pages and provide navigation between them.

Chapter 9 shows you how to customize the look and feel of the automatic admin application by editing some templates and creating custom CSS rules.

Chapter 10 teaches you to use the cache framework to optimize the speed and performance of your project.

Chapter 11 uses internationalization to automatically serve your site templates in multiple languages based on the user's preferences.

This book is for web developers and template authors who want to fully understand and utilize the Django template system. The reader should have completed the introductory tutorials on the Django project's web site and some experience with the framework will be very helpful. Basic knowledge of Python and HTML is assumed.

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text are shown as follows: "We can include other contexts through the use of the include directive."

A block of code will be set as follows:

{% ifequal color 'blue' %}
  Wow, you like blue!
{% else %}
  Why don't you like blue?
{% endifequal %}

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items will be made bold:

from django.http import HttpResponse
from django.template import Context, Template, loader
def detail(request):
    dict_values = {'fav_color': 'blue'}
    template_string = "My favorite color is {{ fav_color }}."
    c = Context(dict_values)
    t = Template(template_string)
    rendered_template = t.render(c)
    return HttpResponse(rendered_template)

Any command-line input and output is written as follows:

$ python manage.py runserver

New terms and important words are introduced in a bold-type font. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in our text like this: "clicking the Next button moves you to the next screen".

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