How to send data from django template to views method in post request or in a way data is not visible in the URL

Question

I have a django template which has multiple <a> tags.

<a class="label label-success" href="get_status/?token={{book.token}}">Update</a>

On click of it, a method from views is called where I can access the token from the url as

tkn = request.GET.get('token')

But now I want not to send the token in the url.
I searched for this and get to know about forms but I did not clearly understand them. Can anyone please help here.

Yes you use a form. But no-one here can help with such a broad question. — Daniel Roseman, Feb 18 '16 at 11:03
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/HTML/Forms/My_first_HTML_form — Daniel Roseman, Feb 18 '16 at 11:07

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 18 '16 at 14:53

For future ref: I created a form and added a hidden input field in it. on click of submit button it will send the token value.

<form action="get_Status/" method="post">
{% csrf_token %}
{{ form }}
<input type="hidden" name="book_token" value="{{book.token}}">
<input type="submit" class="submit_btn btn label-success" value="Update" />
</form>

Ans in the views.py

book_token=request.POST.get("book_token"," ")

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:00

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You can use the basic HTML form concept here.

Please check the link:

How to submit a form with JavaScript by clicking a link? Use javascript/Jquery to submit the form.

Insert the token value in a hidden field and use form to submit it to views.

Then in the views,you can get the value as :request.POST['token']

edited May 23 '17 at 12:00

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answered Feb 18 '16 at 13:58

Haripriya Surendran

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How to send data from django template to views method in post request or in a way data is not visible in the URL

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