Django – get HTML output into a variable

Question:

instead of using render_to_response which will send the HTML output back to browser.

I would like to take the results, generate HTML (using templates) & output the html into a variable in my views.py. How can I do this?

Asked By: Srikar Appalaraju

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Answers:

Adapted from the Django docs:

from django.template import Context, Template
t = Template("My name is {{ my_name }}.")
c = Context({"my_name": "Adrian"})
output = t.render(c)
Answered By: Ned Batchelder

SOLVED! the way to do this –

from django.template.loader import render_to_string
rendered = render_to_string('my_template.html', { 'foo': 'bar' })

thanks to ned for pointing to the Django docs

Answered By: Srikar Appalaraju

There is even a simpler way (if you need to extract html data from render method):

R = render('template.html', context)
data = str(R.content)
Answered By: Ch3shire