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custom_templates:custom-pages-redirects | custom_templates | custom-pages-redirects | Custom redirects | You can use the custom_redirect(location) function to redirect users to another page, for example in a file called pages/datasette.html : {{ custom_redirect("https://github.com/simonw/datasette") }} Now requests to http://localhost:8001/datasette will result in a redirect. These redirects are served with a 302 Found status code by default. You can send a 301 Moved Permanently code by passing 301 as the second argument to the function: {{ custom_redirect("https://github.com/simonw/datasette", 301) }} | ["Custom pages and templates", "Custom pages"] | [] |
custom_templates:custom-pages-parameters | custom_templates | custom-pages-parameters | Path parameters for pages | You can define custom pages that match multiple paths by creating files with {variable} definitions in their filenames. For example, to capture any request to a URL matching /about/* , you would create a template in the following location: templates/pages/about/{slug}.html A hit to /about/news would render that template and pass in a variable called slug with a value of "news" . If you use this mechanism don't forget to return a 404 if the referenced content could not be found. You can do this using {{ raise_404() }} described below. Templates defined using custom page routes work particularly well with the sql() template function from datasette-template-sql or the graphql() template function from datasette-graphql . | ["Custom pages and templates", "Custom pages"] | [{"href": "https://github.com/simonw/datasette-template-sql", "label": "datasette-template-sql"}, {"href": "https://github.com/simonw/datasette-graphql#the-graphql-template-function", "label": "datasette-graphql"}] |
custom_templates:id1 | custom_templates | id1 | Custom pages | You can add templated pages to your Datasette instance by creating HTML files in a pages directory within your templates directory. For example, to add a custom page that is served at http://localhost/about you would create a file in templates/pages/about.html , then start Datasette like this: $ datasette mydb.db --template-dir=templates/ You can nest directories within pages to create a nested structure. To create a http://localhost:8001/about/map page you would create templates/pages/about/map.html . | ["Custom pages and templates"] | [] |
custom_templates:customization-css-and-javascript | custom_templates | customization-css-and-javascript | Custom CSS and JavaScript | When you launch Datasette, you can specify a custom metadata file like this: datasette mydb.db --metadata metadata.json Your metadata.json file can include links that look like this: { "extra_css_urls": [ "https://simonwillison.net/static/css/all.bf8cd891642c.css" ], "extra_js_urls": [ "https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.2.1.slim.min.js" ] } The extra CSS and JavaScript files will be linked in the <head> of every page: <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://simonwillison.net/static/css/all.bf8cd891642c.css"> <script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.2.1.slim.min.js"></script> You can also specify a SRI (subresource integrity hash) for these assets: { "extra_css_urls": [ { "url": "https://simonwillison.net/static/css/all.bf8cd891642c.css", "sri": "sha384-9qIZekWUyjCyDIf2YK1FRoKiPJq4PHt6tp/ulnuuyRBvazd0hG7pWbE99zvwSznI" } ], "extra_js_urls": [ { "url": "https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.2.1.slim.min.js", "sri": "sha256-k2WSCIexGzOj3Euiig+TlR8gA0EmPjuc79OEeY5L45g=" } ] } This will produce: <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://simonwillison.net/static/css/all.bf8cd891642c.css" integrity="sha384-9qIZekWUyjCyDIf2YK1FRoKiPJq4PHt6tp/ulnuuyRBvazd0hG7pWbE99zvwSznI" crossorigin="anonymous"> <script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.2.1.slim.min.js" integrity="sha256-k2WSCIexGzOj3Euiig+TlR8gA0EmPjuc79OEeY5L45g=" crossorigin="anonymous"></script> Modern browsers will only execute the stylesheet or JavaScript if the SRI hash matches the content served. You can generate hashes using www.srihash.org Items in "extra_js_urls" can specify "module": true if they reference JavaScript that uses JavaScript modules . This configuration: { "extra_js_urls": [ { "url": "https://exa… | ["Custom pages and templates"] | [{"href": "https://www.srihash.org/", "label": "www.srihash.org"}, {"href": "https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guide/Modules", "label": "JavaScript modules"}] |
custom_templates:custom-pages-404 | custom_templates | custom-pages-404 | Returning 404s | To indicate that content could not be found and display the default 404 page you can use the raise_404(message) function: {% if not rows %} {{ raise_404("Content not found") }} {% endif %} If you call raise_404() the other content in your template will be ignored. | ["Custom pages and templates", "Custom pages"] | [] |
custom_templates:publishing-static-assets | custom_templates | publishing-static-assets | Publishing static assets | The datasette publish command can be used to publish your static assets, using the same syntax as above: $ datasette publish cloudrun mydb.db --static assets:static-files/ This will upload the contents of the static-files/ directory as part of the deployment, and configure Datasette to correctly serve the assets from /assets/ . | ["Custom pages and templates", "Custom CSS and JavaScript"] | [] |
custom_templates:css-classes-on-the-body | custom_templates | css-classes-on-the-body | CSS classes on the <body> | Every default template includes CSS classes in the body designed to support custom styling. The index template (the top level page at / ) gets this: <body class="index"> The database template ( /dbname ) gets this: <body class="db db-dbname"> The custom SQL template ( /dbname?sql=... ) gets this: <body class="query db-dbname"> A canned query template ( /dbname/queryname ) gets this: <body class="query db-dbname query-queryname"> The table template ( /dbname/tablename ) gets: <body class="table db-dbname table-tablename"> The row template ( /dbname/tablename/rowid ) gets: <body class="row db-dbname table-tablename"> The db-x and table-x classes use the database or table names themselves if they are valid CSS identifiers. If they aren't, we strip any invalid characters out and append a 6 character md5 digest of the original name, in order to ensure that multiple tables which resolve to the same stripped character version still have different CSS classes. Some examples: "simple" => "simple" "MixedCase" => "MixedCase" "-no-leading-hyphens" => "no-leading-hyphens-65bea6" "_no-leading-underscores" => "no-leading-underscores-b921bc" "no spaces" => "no-spaces-7088d7" "-" => "336d5e" "no $ characters" => "no--characters-59e024" <td> and <th> elements also get custom CSS classes reflecting the database column they are representing, for example: <table> <thead> <tr> <th class="col-id" scope="col">id</th> <th class="col-name" scope="col">name</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td class="col-id"><a href="...">1</a></td> … | ["Custom pages and templates", "Custom CSS and JavaScript"] | [] |
custom_templates:custom-pages-errors | custom_templates | custom-pages-errors | Custom error pages | Datasette returns an error page if an unexpected error occurs, access is forbidden or content cannot be found. You can customize the response returned for these errors by providing a custom error page template. Content not found errors use a 404.html template. Access denied errors use 403.html . Invalid input errors use 400.html . Unexpected errors of other kinds use 500.html . If a template for the specific error code is not found a template called error.html will be used instead. If you do not provide that template Datasette's default error.html template will be used. The error template will be passed the following context: status - integer The integer HTTP status code, e.g. 404, 500, 403, 400. error - string Details of the specific error, usually a full sentence. title - string or None A title for the page representing the class of error. This is often None for errors that do not provide a title separate from their error message. | ["Custom pages and templates"] | [{"href": "https://github.com/simonw/datasette/blob/main/datasette/templates/error.html", "label": "default error.html template"}] |
custom_templates:customization-static-files | custom_templates | customization-static-files | Serving static files | Datasette can serve static files for you, using the --static option. Consider the following directory structure: metadata.json static-files/styles.css static-files/app.js You can start Datasette using --static assets:static-files/ to serve those files from the /assets/ mount point: $ datasette -m metadata.json --static assets:static-files/ --memory The following URLs will now serve the content from those CSS and JS files: http://localhost:8001/assets/styles.css http://localhost:8001/assets/app.js You can reference those files from metadata.json like so: { "extra_css_urls": [ "/assets/styles.css" ], "extra_js_urls": [ "/assets/app.js" ] } | ["Custom pages and templates", "Custom CSS and JavaScript"] | [] |
custom_templates:custom-pages-headers | custom_templates | custom-pages-headers | Custom headers and status codes | Custom pages default to being served with a content-type of text/html; charset=utf-8 and a 200 status code. You can change these by calling a custom function from within your template. For example, to serve a custom page with a 418 I'm a teapot HTTP status code, create a file in pages/teapot.html containing the following: {{ custom_status(418) }} <html> <head><title>Teapot</title></head> <body> I'm a teapot </body> </html> To serve a custom HTTP header, add a custom_header(name, value) function call. For example: {{ custom_status(418) }} {{ custom_header("x-teapot", "I am") }} <html> <head><title>Teapot</title></head> <body> I'm a teapot </body> </html> You can verify this is working using curl like this: $ curl -I 'http://127.0.0.1:8001/teapot' HTTP/1.1 418 date: Sun, 26 Apr 2020 18:38:30 GMT server: uvicorn x-teapot: I am content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8 | ["Custom pages and templates", "Custom pages"] | [] |
custom_templates:customization-custom-templates | custom_templates | customization-custom-templates | Custom templates | By default, Datasette uses default templates that ship with the package. You can over-ride these templates by specifying a custom --template-dir like this: datasette mydb.db --template-dir=mytemplates/ Datasette will now first look for templates in that directory, and fall back on the defaults if no matches are found. It is also possible to over-ride templates on a per-database, per-row or per- table basis. The lookup rules Datasette uses are as follows: Index page (/): index.html Database page (/mydatabase): database-mydatabase.html database.html Custom query page (/mydatabase?sql=...): query-mydatabase.html query.html Canned query page (/mydatabase/canned-query): query-mydatabase-canned-query.html query-mydatabase.html query.html Table page (/mydatabase/mytable): table-mydatabase-mytable.html table.html Row page (/mydatabase/mytable/id): row-mydatabase-mytable.html row.html Table of rows and columns include on table page: _table-table-mydatabase-mytable.html _table-mydatabase-mytable.html _table.html Table of rows and columns include on row page: _table-row-mydatabase-mytable.html _table-mydatabase-mytable.html _table.html If a table name has spaces or other unexpected characters in it, the template filename will follow the same rules as our custom <body> CSS classes - for example, a table called "Food Trucks" will attempt to load the following templates: table-mydatabase-Food-Trucks-399138.html table.html You can find out which templates were considered for a specific page by viewing source on that page and looking for an HTML comment at the bottom. The comment will look something like this: <!-- Templates considered: *query-mydb-tz.html, query-mydb.html, query.html… | ["Custom pages and templates"] | [{"href": "https://github.com/simonw/datasette/blob/main/datasette/templates/_table.html", "label": "can be seen here"}] |