Display url variable from views.py in Django template

Question

I want have my url come from views.py and then I can pass it as variable to href tag in template.

views.py:

context {
    'urlLink': "{% url 'myapp:theURL' %}"
    ...
}

index.html:

<a href="{{ urlLink }}" LINK 1 </a>

I have the above and it is not working. I have also tried <a href="{{ urlLink|escape }}" LINK 1 </a> but no success.

Answer 1

If you need to use something similar to the {% url %} template tag in your view code, Django provides the django.core.urlresolvers.reverse() . The reverse function has the following signature:

reverse(viewname, urlconf=None, args=None, kwargs=None)

So in your context:

context {
    'urlLink': reverse('viewname')
}

Then you can use in your template:

<a href="{{urlLink}}">Link1</a>

Answer 2

you need reverse

context {
    'urlLink': "%s" % reverse('view_name')
}

you cannot use {% url 'myapp:theURL' %} in views.py since this is a template tag