Re: Displaying HTML forms through AJAX

My initial recommendation would be to read up on the Forms section of the Django manual. 

A lot of the logic you've written here is abstracted away in Django's built-in methods. 

Also, I'd replace that messy HTML in views.py with a call to a separate partial. 

In fact, that partial would probably being in a form from your forms.py. 

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On Dec 26, 2013, at 1:10 PM, Arun Kaushik <arunkaushik2729@gmail.com> wrote:

I am a newbie. I am learning Django by developing a web application. There is use-case where I got stuck. 

there are 3 buttons on a html page

Personal info

Education

Work Experience

It is desired when the user click any of the button, respective html form shall be displayed on right-half of web-page.

What I have tried is this, onclick function of buttons:

    function myfun()

{

var xmlhttp;

if (window.XMLHttpRequest)

  {

  xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest();

  }

else

  {

  xmlhttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");

  }

xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=function()

  {

  if (xmlhttp.readyState==4 && xmlhttp.status==200)

    {

    document.getElementById("rightpan").innerHTML=xmlhttp.responseText;

    }

  }

xmlhttp.open("GET","{% url "polls:demo_test" %}",true);

xmlhttp.send();

}

</script>

in views.py, demo test does this:

def demo_test(request):

return HttpResponse("<form name='reg' onsubmit='return ValidateForm(this)' action='{% url 'polls:signupexec' %}'  method='post'><tr><td><div>Firstname:</div></td><td><input type='text' name='first_name' /></td></tr><tr><td><div>Lastname:</div></td><td><input type='text' name='last_name' /></td></tr><tr><td><input name='submit' type='submit' value='Submit' /></td></tr></form>")

1. First of all, it works fine except that it does not embed CSRF_TOKEN in the form, which is important.
2. Secondly, I feel that this approach is against the philosophy of django.

Please give some suggestions on how can I do this. Loading HTML Forms dynamically through AJAX.

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