¶ Jinja is a fast, expressive, extensible templating engine. Special placeholders in the template allow writing code similar to Python syntax. Then the template is passed data to render the final document.
Jinja's Template Designer Documentation explains how to create and use templates with special placeholders, macros, and inheritance for dynamic content rendering.
Introduction ¶ Jinja is a fast, expressive, extensible templating engine. Special placeholders in the template allow writing code similar to Python syntax. Then the template is passed data to render the final document. It includes: Template inheritance and inclusion. Define and import macros within templates. HTML templates can use autoescaping to prevent XSS from untrusted user input. A ...
Frequently Asked Questions Why is it called Jinja? ¶ “Jinja” is a Japanese Shinto shrine, or temple, and temple and template share a similar English pronunciation. It is not named after the city in Uganda. How fast is Jinja? ¶ Jinja is relatively fast among template engines because it compiles and caches template code to Python code, so that the template does not need to be parsed and ...
API ¶ This document describes the API to Jinja and not the template language (for that, see Template Designer Documentation). It will be most useful as reference to those implementing the template interface to the application and not those who are creating Jinja templates. Basics ¶ Jinja uses a central object called the template Environment. Instances of this class are used to store the ...
Extensions ¶ Jinja supports extensions that can add extra filters, tests, globals or even extend the parser. The main motivation of extensions is to move often used code into a reusable class like adding support for internationalization. Adding Extensions ¶ Extensions are added to the Jinja environment at creation time. To add an extension pass a list of extension classes or import paths to ...