Built-in Django tags

Django offers several built-in tags that offer immediate access to elaborate operations on Django templates. Unlike Django filters which operate on individual variables, tags are designed to produce results without a variable or operate across template sections.

I'll classify each of these built-in tags into functional sections so it's easier to identify them. The functional classes I'll use are: Dates, forms, comparison operations, loops, Python & filter operations, spacing and special characters, template structures, development and testing & urls.

Dates

• {% now %}.- The {% now %} tag offers access to the current system time. The {% now %} tag accepts a second argument to format the system date. For example, if the system date is 01/01/2022 for the statement {% now "F jS o" %} the tag output is January 1st 2022. The string syntax for the {% now %} tag is based on Django date characters described in table 3-3. It's also possible to use the as keyword to re-use the value through a variable(e.g. {% now "Y" as current_year %} and later in the template declare Copyright {{current_year}}).