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How does one access Django template variables in JavaScript?

  • I am using Django/jQuery to render my web pages for my project. I have a particular predicament that I have not been able to resolve. I hope that some one may be able to help. <b>Set up:</b> I use jQuery on ready function to invoke Google's chart api to generate pie and bar charts. http://code.google.com/apis/chart/image/docs/gallery/pie_charts.html and http://code.google.com/apis/chart/interactive/docs/gallery/barchart.html My django template is essentially this: <pre> <script type="text/javascript"> function drawBarChart() { var getNewDataObject = function() { var data = new google.visualization.DataTable(); data.addColumn('string', 'Name'); data.addColumn('number', 'Amount'); return data; }; var allPersons = new Array() var persons = new Array(); {% for person in persons %} var personArray = new Array(); personArray[0] = '{{person.name}}'; personArray[1] = {{ person.amount }}; allPersons[forloop.counter0] = personArray; {% endfor %} var personDataObject = getNewDataObject(); personsDataObject.addRows(allPersons.length); for (i=0;i<allPersons.length;i++) { for (j=0;j<allPersons[i].length;j++) { personDataObject.setValue(i, j, allPersons[i][j]); } } var chart = new  google.visualization.ColumnChart($('div#personChart').get(0)); chart.draw( personDataObject, {title: 'Person Amount.', width:300, height:250, vAxis: {title: 'Amount'}, hAxis: {title: 'Name'}, allowHtml: true}); } </script> </pre> Issue This code only works if this code is in html file inside a script tag but not if I were to put this in a separate javascript file. The javascript file can neither recognize django template variables nor can it parse them. I would like to have all my javascript code in a separate Javascript file that I can import in other html file if I want to generate a bar chart in another file. I tried the following approach <pre> <script type="text/javascript"> drawBarChart($('div#personChart').get(0), {{ persons }}); </script> .... <script type = "text/javascript" src = "http://www.foo.com/scripts/charts.js" /> </body> </pre> The issue is that Django seems to be passing the repr implementation of list of Person objects. I would like to be able to access the actual list of Person objects. I don't know how to make it work. Other links on Quora and StackOverflow (http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=access+django+template+values+in+javascript) do not provide the correct answer. FYI... I tried to implement the first solution from SO search result but it does not work for me. I would be grateful for any help that anyone can give. I

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    Declare a js variable in a script tag within HTML and directly use in external js files.<script>var context_var= "{{variable}}";</script>You may use context_var in any of your external js files.For details you may refer to http://www.mutaku.com/wp/index.php/2012/03/accessing-django-template-variables-in-javascript/

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I don’t like to print my variables directly inside a script tag. I prefer to create a JSON with all variables I’ll need, and then print this JSON in a data-* attribute on the body tag.Something like this: <body data-js-vars=”{{ js_vars }}”> <script> var my_vars = JSON.parse(document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].getAttribute('data-js-vars') || '{}'); </script> </body>

Eduardo Matos

If you put your Javascript in a separate file then you need to render the data that it is going to work with into the web-page before you read in the script. If you don’t there is, as you rightly point out, no way for the Javascript to access the data.I would suggest that you dump the data you need as JSON into a <script> tag above the tag you are using to include the Javascript file and then you should find it works. Or you can use a data attribute as per Eduardo’s answer above, and then access it via the DOM - whichever you prefer.Good luck,Oliver

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