I have two django template pages, one of them is \"base.html\", with basic html tags setup as a base template. Now I have a page \"child.html\" that extends it, with something l
if you see the new css loaded in the firebug or other browser debugger, please try:
body {
background-color: #000000 !important;
/* some other css here */
}
In the main template:
<body class="{% block body_class %}{% endblock %}">
...
</body>
Then in the child template, just define the block:
{% block body_class %} my_new_body_css_class {% endblock %}
This will render a <body class="my_new_body_css_class">...</body>
and you have to define this class in a linked CSS.
To do this add a block in base.html in the head that allow you to inset another css AFTER the one in base.html
<head>
.... other head tags ....
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/site-media/css/template_conf.css"/>
{% block extra_css %}{% endblock %}
</head>
This allows you to override css tags in template_conf.css
by adding in another <link>
tag in child.html
{% block extra_css %}
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/site-media/css/child_template.css"/>
{% endblock %}
This allows you to override the partd of base.html that needs to change, while still being able to tweak the parts of the page in child.html that are required.