Django forms: integrating a submit button as part of your form

Question

So say I had a django views.py file with the following:

def addauthorView(request):
if request.method == 'POST':
     f = ContactForm(request.POST)
     if form.is_valid():
        first_name = form.cleaned_data['firstname']
        last_name = form.cleaned_data['lastname']
        user_email = form.cleaned_data['email']
        c = Contact(firstname=first_name, lastname=last_name, email=user_email)
     else:
        form = ContactForm(request.POST)
        return render(request, 'addauthor.html', {'form': ContactForm})
else:
    return render(request, 'addauthor.html', {'form': ContactForm})

A forms.py file like such

class ContactForm(forms.Form):
    firstname = forms.CharField(max_length=50)
    lastname =forms.CharField(max_length=50)
    email = forms.EmailField()

and a HTML file like such

<html>
<head>
    <title>Head</title>
</head>

<body>
    <ul>
    {{form.as_ul}}
    <input type="submit">  
    </ul>
</body>

How do I make it the case that when the <input type="submit"> button is pressed, my ContactFormview will execute some code. Is there a specific way to group buttons into a forms.py? Or is there any other way to do this. If someone could help me rework this code, that would be great.

Thanks in advance.

alecxe · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-19 04:20:32Z

1

Just enclose form.as_ul and submit button into the form tag:

<form action="/your_url_here/" method="post">{% csrf_token %}
{{ form.as_ul }}
<input type="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>

Also see Displaying a form using a template.

Hope that helps.

answered Mar 19, 2014 at 4:20

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ApathyBear Over a year ago

Thanks, I almost thought it wasn't that easy ;P

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