Accessing outer for loop

[rohitpaulk]

I can't seem to find a way to access the forloop object for the outermost for loop in a template that looks like this.

{% for outerItem in outerItems %}
    {% for item in items%}
        <div>{{ forloop.counter }}.&nbsp;{{ item }}</div>
    {% endfor %}
{% endfor %}

forloop.counter returns the innermost for loop's counter in the above example

[nickpearson]

You can assign the outer forloop to a variable before it gets shadowed by the inner forloop variable:

{% for outerItem in outerItems %}
    {% assign outer_forloop = forloop %}
    {% for item in items%}
        <div>{{ outer_forloop.counter }}.&nbsp;{{ item }}</div>
    {% endfor %}
{% endfor %}

[rohitpaulk]

Yep, that should work! Thanks @nickpearson!

Looks like Django's templating language has a forloop.parentloop variable attached to it, that can be used to refer to the outer loop directly. I'm leaving this issue open for people to leave their comments if they'd be interested in something like that.