[Fixed]-Django Forms Returns Error About Errorlist When Validating

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The way your creating the articleForm is wrong.

It is better to use model forms like {{ form.as_p }} or something like this.

But if you really want to create custom forms in html, you should use django’s standard id and name tags. If field name is blog_article, corresponding html field’s id should be id_blog_article. And the name attribute should be blog_article. You have name attribute as article not blog_article. So here is correct article element in html form:

<label for="id_blog_article"> Article: </label>
<textarea id="id_blog_article" name="blog_article" rows="20" cols="100"></textarea>

Now you can get form data in view with:

if request.method == "POST":
    article = addForm(request.POST)
    if article.is_valid():
        add_article = article.save()
        print ("success!")
    else:
        print ("request data: ", request.POST)
        print ("form is not valid")

But again, it is better and easy to render forms with built-in tags, unless you do not have a solid reason.

👤alioguzhan

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