theming - theme switching, template and css file layout on a django site -

in django site want offer several themes our best clients , boss. created following. - glad got along present there few dirty hacks want eliminate nice solutions ask for.

here's hack

base.html says (take care - ugly!)

{% ifequal theme "0" %}     {% include "base_d0.html" %} {% endifequal %}  {% ifequal theme "1" %}     {% include "base_d1.html" %} {% endifequal %}  {% ifequal theme "2" %}     {% include "base_d2.html" %} {% endifequal %} 

then kept in media dir subdirs common css , js

and created subdirs

static/   d0/     ( theme 0 stuff )     css/     js/   d1/     ( theme 1 stuff )     css/     js/   ...   css/     (all common css)   js/     (all common js) 

my controller has method switch design, current 1 stored in cookie. checked on every request , in template prefix_static context variable accordingly /mypathto/static/d0 resp. +d1 +d2 , of course had invent common_static var. , theme var set base.html switch.

of course googled before starting found hard find search terms (as expect there many resources )

from loader_tags.py include_node do_extends doc:

this tag may used in 2 ways: ``{% extends "base" %}`` (with quotes) uses literal value "base" name of parent template extend, or ``{% extends variable %}`` uses value of ``variable`` either name of parent template extend (if evaluates string) or parent tempate itelf (if evaluates template object). 

so changed templates

{% extends base %}  

instead of

{% extends "base.html" %} 

and set context var "base" theme + "/base.html" in main controller before call get_template