Alright, so this has been resolved. The answer is yes, template inheritance does worked within splunk apps and the problem i was creating was not defining my parent content blocks that i defined in my child template. For example. In the child.html tempate, i defined a content block called: {% block my_custom_div %} {% endblock my_custom_div %} But neglected to include that block within a defined block in the parent.html Previous broken template: {% block my_div %} {% endblock my_div %} But since this name was not previously defined in my parent, it didn't know how/what to do with it. But adding this block within a previously defined parent block, like: {% block content %} {% block my_div %} {% endblock my_div %} {% endblock content %} It will render. The error specifically calling out the django block tag was because in the template (the child in this case) did not include the "{% load splunkmvc %}" block at the top which is used to make the django dropdown block. ... View more