Django templates stripping spaces?

Question

I\'m having trouble with Django templates and CharField models.

So I have a model with a CharField that creates a slug that replaces spaces with underscores. If I cr

Answer 1

There is a built-in template tag spaceless

{% spaceless %}
    <p>
        <a href="foo/">Foo</a>
    </p>
{% endspaceless %}

Which results:

<p><a href="foo/">Foo</a></p>

Read more in django documentation.

Answer 2

Let me preface this by saying @DNS's answer is correct as to why the spaces are not showing.

With that in mind, this template filter will replace any spaces in the string with  

Usage:

{{ "hey there  world"|spacify }}

Output would be hey there  world

Here is the code:

from django.template import Library
from django.template.defaultfilters import stringfilter
from django.utils.html import conditional_escape
from django.utils.safestring import mark_safe
import re

register = Library()

@stringfilter
def spacify(value, autoescape=None):
    if autoescape:
    esc = conditional_escape
    else:
    esc = lambda x: x
    return mark_safe(re.sub('\s', '&'+'nbsp;', esc(value)))
spacify.needs_autoescape = True
register.filter(spacify)

For notes on how template filters work and how to install them, check out the docs.