Tags in included Templates are disregarding passed variables

Using Django Templates & Frontend
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Is this by design or am I doing something wrong? Here is the situation:

I have this in template_A:
{% if obj %}{% include template_B with thing=obj %}{% endif %}

and in template_B:

<div>{{ thing.name }}</div>
{% if thing.name == "text" %}<p> It is working!</p>{% endif %}

I find that thing.name evaluates in template_B and renders in the div but the paragraph block (<p></p>) does not render even when thing.name evaluates to "text". It appears passing objects between templates only work for {{ variables }} but not for {% tags %}

Is this the design?

2

I think what the questioner is trying to convey is that the include template is not working properly.

Here’s what you need to check:
. What is the HTML that appears in the final rendering?
. Are individual apps using templates with the same name?
. Is {{ obj.name }} valid in the template a?
. Aren’t you overwriting {{ thing }} in template b?

3

What you show should work, so it seems like something else is going wrong. Not very helpful, but just wanted to confirm that it should work as you expect.

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4

I think it should work, and you need to provide more information.
Try some debugging and provide the output:

  1. template_A.html.
{% if obj %}
    {% include "template_B.html" with thing=obj %}
{% endif %}
  1. template_B.html
<div>{{ thing.name }}</div>
<p>thing.name is: "{{ thing.name }}"</p> 
{% if thing.name == "text" %}
    <p>It is working!</p>
{% endif %}
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5

In addition to the excellent suggestion above, what is thing.name?
If thing.name is an object or a foreign key, it might render as “text”, but it is not == “text”. So knowing what these objects are is also important.

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I was able to get this working. I could not replicate the faulty scenario. Some how, I fixed it without identifying the bug.