Questions tagged [django-forms]

Specific questions related to Django forms.

Quote from the official documentation:

While it is possible to process form submissions just using Django’s HttpRequest class, using the form library takes care of a number of common form-related tasks. Using it, you can:

• Display an HTML form with automatically generated form widgets.
• Check submitted data against a set of validation rules.
• Redisplay a form in the case of validation errors.
• Convert submitted form data to the relevant Python data types.

An example form from the docs

from django import forms

class ContactForm(forms.Form):
    subject = forms.CharField(max_length=100)
    message = forms.CharField()
    sender = forms.EmailField()
    cc_myself = forms.BooleanField(required=False)

An example on how to validate a form with POST data

form = ContactForm(request.POST)  # A form bound to the POST data
if form.is_valid():
    return HttpResponseRedirect('/thanks/')