Populating HTML templates with Django

- [Narrator] When handling a web request,…after the view has retrieved any necessary data…from the database models,…the final step is to apply an HTML template…to produce the final response.…In my application, that occurs on line 27…of the dashboard render function within views.py.…This call to Djangos render function passes in…the original HTTP request,…a template file, in this case, index.html…and the dashboard data object I retrieved from the database…using the DashboardData.objects.get method on line 24.…

The render function combines the dashboard data…with my HTML template and returns an HTTP response object.…That index.HTML template file is located in the Templates…folder under the Dashboard sub folder.…It's a fairly simple HTML page that uses a table…to organize the different elements of my dashboard.…I did use the bootstrap CSS library on line 6…to give it some style and I used the gauge.js…JavaScript library on lines 61 through 69…to create the fancy-looking engine gauge.…

The curly brace percent sign notation on lines 61 and 62…