Make the first letter uppercase inside a django template

I am pulling a name from a database which is stored as myname. How do I display this inside a Django template as Myname, with the first letter being in uppercase.

Using Django built-in template filter called title

{{ "myname"|title }}

I know it's a bit late, but you can use capfirst:

{{ "waiting for action"|capfirst }}

This will result into "Waiting for action"

This solution also works if you have multiple words (for example all caps):

{{ "ALL CAPS SENTENCE"|lower|capfirst }}

This will output "All caps sentence".

The title filter works fine, but if you have a many-words string like: "some random text", the result is going to be "Some Random Text". If what you really want is to uppercase only the first letter of the whole string, you should create your own custom filter.

You could create a filter like this (follow the instructions on how to create a custom template filter from this doc - it's quite simple):

# yourapp/templatetags/my_filters.py
from django import template

register = template.Library()

@register.filter()
def upfirstletter(value):
    first = value[0] if len(value) > 0 else ''
    remaining = value[1:] if len(value) > 1 else ''
    return first.upper() + remaining
    

Then, you should load the my_filters file at your template, and use the filter defined there:

{% load my_filters %}

...
{{ myname|upfirstletter }}

It worked for me in template variable.

{{ user.username|title }}

If the user is "al hasib" then the it will return "Al Hasib"

or

{{ user.username|capfirst }}

If user is 'hasib' then the last one will return "Hasib"

Both look something like same but there's some differences.

use {{"myname"|title}} this will make the fist letter of each word capital

Just use {{myname | capfirst}} In Django the template filter capfirst capatialize the first letter of a given string.