Allow custom link text for urlize filter

[Danilo Bargen]

My templates usually contain a lot of the following pattern:

<a href="{{ object.url }}">{{ object.name }}</a>

It would be great if there were an optional link_text argument to the urlize filter:

{{ object.url|urlize:object.name }}

I added a pull request for this here: ​https://github.com/django/django/pull/1792

The pull request contains the implementation and tests. If you agree to include this in Django, I'll add a commit to this pull request that updates the documentation.

[Tim Graham]

While this works for your use case, I can imagine someone else may want to customize urlize and pass it arguments for a different purpose. For this reason, I think it's better for projects to have their own customized versions of urlize rather than for us to include a particular implementation in core. Will leave this open for a bit before making a "won't fix" call to see if anyone else wants to chime in.

[Danilo Bargen]

Thanks for your comment.

I'm pretty sure that this is by far the most common use case for urlize customizations. But you might have a point there, because usually when creating URLs with a custom text, you don't want rel="nofollow" to be there.

Sometimes I miss Jinja's template filters with multiple arguments...

[Baptiste Mispelon]

I'm also -1 on the idea.

The addition proposed here only makes sense when "urlizing" a single URL but that's not what urlize is designed for.
Its purpose is to find all the URLs inside a big chunk of text and convert them into clickable <a> tags.

I think that's reason enough to mark this as wontfix.
Please reopen this ticket if you have ideas on how to address the criticism raised here.

Thanks.

[Danilo Bargen]

OK, valid point by bmispelon.