HTML From a View

Part of the Django Basics section of Coddy's Django journey. Lesson 3 of 23.

The home page is one line of plain text. A real page has headings and paragraphs, written in HTML, the language of web pages: <h1> marks a heading, <p> a paragraph.

A view can return HTML in its string, and the browser draws it instead of showing the tags:

def news(request):
    return HttpResponse("<h1>News</h1><p>New cakes on Friday.</p>")

Every tag you open needs its closing tag, with a slash: </h1>. Forget it and the rest of the page becomes part of the heading.

A whole page in a Python string gets messy. Templates fix that later in this section; for two lines, a string is fine.

Challenge

Easy

Make the home page a heading and a paragraph:

the heading <h1>Welcome to Corner Café</h1>,
then the paragraph <p>Fresh coffee and cake every day.</p>.

Press Run: the home page shows a big heading over a line of text.

Try it yourself

from django.http import HttpResponse


def home(request):
    return HttpResponse("Welcome to Corner Café")


def about(request):
    return HttpResponse("Corner Café opened in 2026.")