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EClipse
EClipse

Reputation: 1

Flask Post is not coming to the Same Page

I made a simple HTML:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Form to Post</title>
        <form action="post">
            <input type="text" name="theinput"><br>
            <input type="submit" value="Submit">
        </form>
        <p>{{theout}}</p>
</head>
<body>

</body>
</html>

All I want t do here s input somethign in the boix and post it right underneath. This is the flask code I am using:

from flask import render_template, request

app = Flask(__name__)

@app.route('/', methods=['GET','POST'])
def homepage():
    if request.method == 'POST':
       return render_template("index.html", theout=theinput)
    else:
       return render_template("index.html")



if __name__ == "__main__":
    app.run()

What am I doing wrong here? (The HTML IS index.html)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 59

Answers (2)

PiAreSquared
PiAreSquared

Reputation: 324

The action attribute should be the URL you want to POST to, while the method attribute should be the method you want to use. So in your case, it would be:

<form action="/" method="post">

In flask, you need to make sure you get all the form fields through the requests module. After importing it, get the form field data by:

theinput = request.form['theinput']

Upvotes: 2

Manu
Manu

Reputation: 354

You have to use <form action="/" method="POST>.....</form> , not action="post"

Action corresponds to the destination route for the desired HTTP Request.

Upvotes: 0

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