[Answered ]-How to create a simple form in the base html template django

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You can add some data to global context through settings TEMPLATES > OPTIONS > context_processors – Writing your own context processors.

And for extending templates use template tag extends(Django Docs).

1. Adding variable to context

Create yourapp/context_processors.py:

from django.conf import settings

from yourapp.forms import MyForm


def base_data(request):
    data = {}
    # MyForm(request.GET, user=request.user)
    data["my_form"] = MyForm()
    data["my_email"] = settings.MYEMAIL
    return data

And add it to context_processors in settings.py:

TEMPLATES = [
    {
        'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
        'DIRS': [
           ...
        ],
        'APP_DIRS': True,
        'OPTIONS': {
            'context_processors': [
                ...
                'yourapp.context_processors.base_data',
            ],
        },
    },
]

Now you can access your this data in any template:

{{ my_form }}, {{ my_email }}

2. Extending Templates

You can also use template tag extends(Django Docs) to extend your templates:

template.html
base.html

In template.html, the following paths would be valid:

{% extends "base.html" %}
<div class="container">
    Some HTML code
</div>

Additional info TEMPLATES(Django Docs) and OPTIONS (Django Docs) available parameters.

UPDATE

views.py:

def contact(request):
    if request.method == 'POST':
        form = BaseContactForm(request.POST)
        if form.is_valid():
            form.save()
            return redirect('Home-Page')
    else:
        form = BaseContactForm()
    return redirect(request.META.get('HTTP_REFERER'))

urls.py:

path('contact/', views.contact, name='contact'),
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