Last Updated : 12 Jul, 2025
A Django template is a text document or a Python string marked-up using the Django template language. Django being a powerful Batteries included framework provides convenience to rendering data in a template. Django templates not only allow passing data from view to template, but also provides some limited features of programming such as variables, for loops, comments, extends, include, lorem etc. This article revolves about how to use
lorem tagin Templates.
lorem
tag displays random “lorem ipsum” Latin text. This is useful for providing sample data in templates.
Syntax
{% lorem [count] [method] [random] %}
count
- A number (or variable) containing the number of paragraphs or words to generate (default is 1).
method- Either w for words, p for HTML paragraphs or b for plain-text paragraph blocks (default is b).
random- The word random, which if given, does not use the common paragraph (“Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet…”) when generating text.
Examples -tags.
Illustration of How to use lorem tag in Django templates using an Example. Consider a project named
geeksforgeeks
having an app named
geeks
.
Refer to the following articles to check how to create a project and an app in Django.
Now create a view through which we will access the template, In
geeks/views.py
,
Python3
# import Http Response from django
from django.shortcuts import render
# create a function
def geeks_view(request):
# return response
return render(request, "geeks.html.html")
Create a url path to map to this view. In
geeks/urls.py
,
Python3
from django.urls import path
# importing views from views.py
from .views import geeks_view
urlpatterns = [
path('', geeks_view),
]
Now we will create s template to demonstrate
lorem tag. Create a base template in
geeks.html
,
html
<html>
{% lorem %}
</html>
Now visit
http://127.0.0.1:8000/,
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