django_bootstrap5 not formatting anything

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I’m trying to get basic bootstrap formatting working in a django app, and installed django_bootstrap5 to do so. No formatting, however, is getting applied to any of the pages.

Here’s the various pages:

base.html:

<!DOCTYPE html>
{% load django_bootstrap5 %}
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>
        {% block title %}
        {% endblock %}
    </title>
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
    {% block body %}
    {% endblock %}
</div>
</body>
</html>

I extend this in a simple index page:

<!DOCTYPE html>
{% extends 'base.html' %}
{% load django_bootstrap5 %}

{% block title %}
  Home
{% endblock %}

{% block body %}
<h1>Hello World</h1>
{% endblock %}

Hello World, however, is not showing up in a container.

This is also failing on a form page:

<!DOCTYPE html>
{% extends 'base.html' %}
{% load django_bootstrap5 %}

{% block body %}
<div class="container">
    <h1>Sign Up</h1>
    <form method="POST">
        {% csrf_token %}
        {% bootstrap_form form %}
        <input type="submit" value="Sign Up" class="btn btn-default">
    </form>
</div>
{% endblock %}

The form is neither in a bootstrap container, nor does it have any styling at all. What am I missing here? Do you need to also load the bootstrap files by cdn or download them and add them to static when using django_bootstrap5? That makes things work, but it seems like it defeats the purpose of installing via pip. Thank you.

Asked By: BLimitless

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Answer 1

Thank you @tdy for tracking this down in the source code on github: one is not supposed to install bootstrap via cdn or by downloading the local files. Those are already included. Instead the preferred way to link is to include the {% boostrap_css %} and {% bootstrap_javascript %} tags. Thus your base.html file should look something like:

<!DOCTYPE html>
{% load django_bootstrap5 %}

<head>

    <!-- Required meta tags -->
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no">

    <!-- Bootstrap CSS -->
    {% bootstrap_css %}

</head>

<body>
    <!-- Content -->

    <!-- Bootstrap JavaScript -->
    {% bootstrap_javascript %}

</body>

As an additional note, even if one did have to install bootstrap via cdn or local files in addition to the django_bootstrap5 package, this still wouldn’t defeat the point of the package: django_bootstrap5 makes it easy to integrate bootstrap into django, that’s the main point. You can format an entire form in a single line using django_bootstrap5:

<form id="postForm" action="{% url 'posts:create' %}" method="POST">
    {% csrf_token %}
    {% bootstrap_form form %} # this one line does a TON of work.
    <input class="btn btn-primary btn-large" type="submit" value="Post">
</form>

The django_bootstrap5 package also makes it easy to install bootstrap.

Thank you all, especially @tdy for the support, and happy django-ing.

Answered By: BLimitless

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