Linter Usage

djLint includes many rules to check the style and validity of your templates. Take full advantage of the linter by configuring it to use a preset profile for the template language of your choice.

djlint /path/to/templates --lint

# with custom extensions
djlint /path/to/templates -e html.dj --profile=django

# or to file
djlint /path/to/this.html.j2  --profile=jinja
Check out the configuration guide for all the options!

∞ Enabling or Disabling Rules

Most rules are enabled by default. Rules can be disabled in the command line with the --ignore flag. Rules can be enabled with the --include flag.

For example:

djlint . --lint --include=H017,H035 --ignore=H013,H015

This can also be done through the Configuration file.

∞ Rules

Code Meaning Default
D004 (Django) Static urls should follow {% static path/to/file %} pattern. ✔️
D018 (Django) Internal links should use the {% url ... %} pattern. ✔️
H005 Html tag should have lang attribute. ✔️
H006 img tag should have height and width attributes. ✔️
H007 <!DOCTYPE ... > should be present before the html tag. ✔️
H008 Attributes should be double quoted. ✔️
H009 Tag names should be lowercase. ✔️
H010 Attribute names should be lowercase. ✔️
H011 Attribute values should be quoted. ✔️
H012 There should be no spaces around attribute =. ✔️
H013 img tag should have alt attributes. ✔️
H014 More than 2 blank lines. ✔️
H015 Follow h tags with a line break. ✔️
H016 Missing title tag in html. ✔️
H017 Void tags should be self closing. -
H019 Replace javascript:abc() with on_ event and real url. ✔️
H020 Empty tag pair found. Consider removing. ✔️
H021 Inline styles should be avoided. ✔️
H022 Use HTTPS for external links. ✔️
H023 Do not use entity references. ✔️
H024 Omit type on scripts and styles. ✔️
H025 Tag seems to be an orphan. ✔️
H026 Empty id and class tags can be removed. ✔️
H029 Consider using lowercase form method values. ✔️
H030 Consider adding a meta description. ✔️
H031 Consider adding meta keywords. ✔️
H033 Extra whitespace found in form action. ✔️
J004 (Jinja) Static urls should follow {{ url_for('static'..) }} pattern. ✔️
J018 (Jinja) Internal links should use the {% url ... %} pattern. ✔️
T001 Variables should be wrapped in whitespace. Ex: {{ this }} ✔️
T002 Double quotes should be used in tags. Ex {% extends "this.html" %} ✔️
T003 Endblock should have name. Ex: {% endblock body %}. ✔️
T027 Unclosed string found in template syntax. ✔️
T028 Consider using spaceless tags inside attribute values. {%- if/for -%} ✔️
T032 Extra whitespace found in template tags. ✔️
T034 Did you intend to use {% … %} instead of {% … }%? ✔️
H035 Meta tags should be self closing. -
H036 Avoid use of br tags. -
H037 Duplicate attribute found. ✔️

∞ Code Patterns

The first letter of a code follows the pattern:

  • D: applies specifically to Django
  • H: applies to html
  • J: applies specifically to Jinja
  • M: applies specifically to Handlebars
  • N: applies specifically to Nunjucks
  • T: applies generally to templates

∞ Adding Rules

We welcome pull requests with new rules!

A good rule consists of

  • Name
  • Code
  • Message - Message to display when error is found.
  • Flags - Regex flags. Defaults to re.DOTALL. ex: re.I|re.M
  • Patterns - regex expressions that will find the error.
  • Exclude - Optional list of profiles to exclude rule from.

Please include a test to validate the rule.

∞ Custom Rules

You can add custom rules just for your project by creating a .djlint_rules.yaml alongside
your pyproject.toml. Rules can be added to this files and djLint will pick them up.

∞ Pattern Rules

You can add rules that fails if one of the regex pattern has a match:

- rule:
    name: T001
    message: Find Trichotillomania
    flags: re.DOTALL|re.I
    patterns:
      - Trichotillomania

∞ Python module Rules

You can add rules that import and execute a custom python function:

- rule:
    name: T001
    message: Found the 'bad' word
    python_module: your_package.your_module

The specified python_module must contain a run() function that will be executed on
every checked file. It must accept the following arguments:

  • rule: The dict that represent your rule in .djlint_rules.yaml. You will typically
    use this variable to access the rule name and message.
  • config: The DJLint configuration object.
  • html: The full html content of the file.
  • filepath: Path to the file that we are currently checking.
  • line_ends: List of line start and end character position that you can use with
    djlint.lint.get_line() to get line numbers from a character position. See the example.
  • *args, **kwargs: We might add other arguments in the future, so you should include
    those two arguments to reduce the risk of failure on djLint upgrade.

It must return a list of dict, one for each errors, with the following keys:

  • code: Code name of the rule that report the error (typically rule['name'])
  • line: Line number and character number on this line, separated by a ‘:’ as a string.
    For example "2:3" means that the error has been found on line 2, character 3
  • match: The part of the content that contains the error
  • message: The message that will be printed to signal the error (typically rule['message'])
from typing import Any, Dict, List
from djlint.settings import Config
from djlint.lint import get_line
import re

def run(
    rule: Dict[str, Any],
    config: djlint.settings.Config,
    html: str,
    filepath: str,
    line_ends: List[Dict[str, int]],
    *args: Any,
    **kwargs: Any,
) -> List[Dict[str, str]]:
    """
    Rule that fails if if the html file contains 'bad'. This is just an example, in
    reality it's much simpler to do that with "pattern rule".
    """
    errors: List[Dict[str, str]] = []
    for match in re.finditer(r"bad", html):
        errors.append(
            {
                "code": rule["name"],
                "line": get_line(match.start(), line_ends),
                "match": match.group().strip()[:20],
                "message": rule["message"],
            }
        )
    return errors
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