Creating Individual Author Links in Django Template

To display multiple authors with individual links to their respective detail pages, you need to iterate through the authors collection rather than joining them into a single string. Here's how you can modify your template:

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<p><strong>Author{% if book.author.all.count > 1 %}s{% endif %}:</strong> 
  {% for author in book.author.all %}
    <a href="{% url 'author-detail' author.pk %}">{{ author.name }}</a>{% if not forloop.last %}, {% endif %}
  {% endfor %}
</p>

This code:

1. Adds a conditional plural "s" to "Author" when there's more than one author
2. Loops through each author in the collection
3. Creates individual links for each author using the author-detail URL pattern with the author's primary key
4. Adds commas between author names (but not after the last one) using the forloop.last variable

Make sure you have an author-detail URL pattern defined in your URLconf, similar to:

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from django.urls import path
from books.views import AuthorDetailView

urlpatterns = [
    # ...
    path("authors/<int:pk>/", AuthorDetailView.as_view(), name="author-detail"),
]

And ensure you have an AuthorDetailView class defined:

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from django.views.generic import DetailView
from books.models import Author

class AuthorDetailView(DetailView):
    model = Author

This approach will create separate links for each author while maintaining a clean, comma-separated list format.