How to send selected option value in form action in django

Question

I want to send the l.id value in the action which I will match in urlconf.

<form name="move_form" action="{% url index %}move_review/" method="post">
<select name="to_lst">

{% if list1 %}
{% for l in list1 %}
    <OPTION value={{ l.id }}>{{l.name }}-{{ l.age }}</OPTION>
{% endfor %}
{% else %}
<OPTION> None </OPTION>
{% endif %}
</select>

<INPUT type="submit" value="Accept" ><INPUT type="Reset">

What I want is to make the url like <mainip>/move_review/{l.id}/

Any help will be highly appreciated. Thanks.

so when you click on submit you want to redirect to that page/view, right? — Sammy J, Mar 07 '19 at 10:59
yes sammy. i tried several things. but i am not able to figure it out properly. — Supratik, Mar 07 '19 at 11:02
ok, change the `method="post"` to `method="get"` and see if it hits the url, means in the top on the url you can see the to_lst — Sammy J, Mar 07 '19 at 11:05
Did a workaround by keeping the method as post. it is working now. Thanks. — Supratik, Mar 07 '19 at 12:08

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 07 '19 at 11:02

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try this

def your_function(request):
  id = request.POST.get("to_lst",None)
  #Do something 
  return render(request,"your_template.html")

In this case you need not pass id in urls.let form take care of it

answered Mar 07 '19 at 11:02

Clifton Avil D'Souza

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Thanks for the solution. But suppose, in the context dictionary i am sending a key value pair which i am not using in the template. but i want that key value pair to be available for the next view which gets invoked from the form action. what do i want to do in that case? – Supratik Mar 07 '19 at 11:49
Got it. Done. Thanks for the support. – Supratik Mar 07 '19 at 12:07

How to send selected option value in form action in django

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