How to get name of template that was chosen for request?

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For convenience it would be rather useful if there was a way for me to achieve the following inside my main layout template:

<body class="template--{{ getNameOfPageTemplateHere|replace({ '/':'-', '_':'' }) }}">

Such that a page rendered using the template "blog/_entry" would have the following body tag:

<body class="template--blog-entry">

Is this possible?

Alf Vestre · Accepted Answer · 2014-12-17 07:49:11Z

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Maybe not the solution you was looking for, but here is an alternative solution I'm using.

Put a Twig block in your "master template" (_layout.html?) like this:

<body class="{% block bodyClass %}{% endblock bodyClass %}">

And from my templates I can add classes to the body tag like this:

{% block bodyClass %}{{ parent() }} news-index anotherclass{% endblock bodyClass %}

Or replace the classes by omitting the parent() like this:

{% block bodyClass %}news-index anotherclass{% endblock bodyClass %}

answered Dec 17, 2014 at 7:49

Alf Vestre

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Thanks, but I already have something like this, I am using a variable rather than a block which gets set before @extends but I was hoping to avoid having to explicitly set the class for each of my templates, would have been nice if this could be automated.
– Lea Hayes
Dec 17, 2014 at 10:14

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Brad Bell · Accepted Answer · 2014-12-17 02:53:55Z

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You can use {% set templateName = _self.getTemplateName() %} from _edit and pass that up as a variable that your layout template can utilize.

answered Dec 17, 2014 at 2:53

Brad Bell

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I have tried this but it does not seem to return the name of the template that is dealing with the request, but rather the name of the current template; '_layout.html' in my case.
– Lea Hayes
Dec 17, 2014 at 10:12
And you put the getTemplateName() call inside of the _edit template?
– Brad Bell
Dec 17, 2014 at 16:02

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