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Flat HTML

8:34 with Kenneth Love

With routes and views under our belts, it's time to see how Flask handles one of the major requirements for the web, HTML.

Things to Remember

  • Use {{ and }} to print items in templates.
  • Flask looks for templates in a directory named templates by default. This directory should be in the same directory as your app script.

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    This works fine for really small stuff, but no one wants to 0:00
    write all the HTML required for an entire view every single time. 0:02
    Flask knows this, so 0:06
    it gives us a great function called Render Template that renders templates. 0:07
    Let's go check it out. 0:11
    So I'm a big fan of doing things the hard way first. 0:12
    It helps you to understand what's going on, and 0:15
    to appreciate the easier way a little bit more. 0:18
    So let's do this the hard way first. 0:22
    Let's make our ad view here send back real HTML. 0:26

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