Though we saw the limitations of using include files earlier in this chapter, there are times when they can be useful. If you have a piece of content that you need to include in some child templates, it may not make sense to create extra parent/child relationships just to drop in this content. Let's look at two options that Django provides us to easily include content.
To take the contents of a template file and put it into another template, use the include tag. Pass the tag a template file name to include just like you did with the extends tag:
{% include "menu.html" %}In this hypothetical example, the menu.html file will be loaded the same way other templates are loaded by the template engine. The location of the file is relative to the TEMPLATE_DIRS setting, and the file is parsed by the template engine using the same context variables as the template that called it.