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<h3>Using Named Blocks<a class="headerlink" href="#using-named-blocks" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Possibly the more important area where blocks are useful is when we
do actually give them names. Named blocks are tailored to behave
somewhat closely to Jinja2’s block tag, in that they define an area
of a layout which can be overridden by an inheriting template. In
sharp contrast to the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">&lt;%def&gt;</span></code> tag, the n