How to get data from HTML form in Django?

In Django, you can retrieve data from an HTML form using the request object. Here is an example of how to do it:

Define a function in Django to handle form

In your views.py, define a view function that will handle the form submission.

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1def my_view(request):
2    if request.method == 'POST':
3        # retrieve form data
4        form_data = request.POST
5
6        # retrieve individual field values
7        name = form_data['name']
8        email = form_data['email']
9        message = form_data['message']
10
11        # print the values
12        print("Name:", name)
13        print("Email:", email)
14        print("Message:", message)
15
16        # redirect to a new URL
17        return redirect('success_url')
18
19    else:
20        # display the form
21        return render(request, 'template.html')
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Create your HTML form

In your template.html, create the HTML form:

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1<form method="post" action="{% url 'form_page' %}">
2  <label for="name">Name:</label>
3  <input type="text" id="name" name="name">
4
5  <label for="email">Email:</label>
6  <input type="email" id="email" name="email">
7
8  <label for="message">Message:</label>
9  <textarea id="message" name="message"></textarea>
10  
11  <input type="submit" value="Submit">
12</form>
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That's all you need to get data from your HTML form in Django.

Update urls.py

In your urls.py, create a URL pattern for the view:

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1from django.urls import path
2from .views import my_view
3
4urlpatterns = [
5    path('form-page/', my_view, name='form_page'),
6]
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Summary

In this mini article we've showed you how to process HTML form data in Django as simple as possible, hope it helps!

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