[Answered ]-Django – How to stay on the same page without refreshing page?

It’s not trivial, but the basic steps you need are:

1. Write some javascript to usurp the form submit button click
2. Call your ajax function which sends data to “checking” view
3. Write a “checking” view that will check if form data has changed
4. If data have changed, submit the form
5. If not, just stay on page

This blog post is a nice walkthrough of the entire process (though targeted towards a different end result, you’ll need to modify the view).

And here are some SO answers that will help with the steps above:

1. Basically:

   $('#your-form-id').on('submit', function(event){
       event.preventDefault();
       your_ajax_function();
   });
   

2. Call ajax function on form submit

3. Gotta do yourself!
4. Submit form after checking