I’m working on a Django project, and I’m having trouble getting a variable to render in my HTML template. I have a view that passes a dictionary containing some data to my template, and I want to display a specific value in the HTML.
Here’s a simplified version of my view:
def my_view(request):
data = {'user_name': 'John Doe', 'age': 25}
return render(request, 'my_template.html', {'data': data})
n my_template.html, I'm trying to display the user's name like this:
html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>My Template</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Welcome, {{ data.user_name }}!</h1>
</body>
</html>
However, when I load the page, the user's name doesn't render. It just shows "Welcome, !" without the actual name. What am I doing wrong? Any help would be appreciated!
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Welcome, {{ user_name }}!
**use this only**
The problem is you’re using javascript syntax for a python dictionary. In other words the
data.user_nameinside angular brackets is in python and in python you can’t get value of a specific key by dot notation (buy you do in javascript) sodata["user_name"]should work here.