How to redirect to previous page in Django after POST request
You can add a next
field to your form, and set it to request.path
. After you processed your form you can redirect to the value of this path.
template.html
<form method="POST">
{% csrf_token %}
{{ form }}
<input type="hidden" name="next" value="{{ request.path }}">
<button type="submit">Let's Go</button>
</form>
views.py
next = request.POST.get('next', '/')
return HttpResponseRedirect(next)
This is roughly what django.contrib.auth
does for the login form if I remember well.
If you pass through an intermediate page, you can pass the 'next' value via the querystring:
some_page.html
<a href="{% url 'your_form_view' %}?next={{ request.path|urlencode }}">Go to my form!</a>
template.html
<form method="POST">
{% csrf_token %}
{{ form }}
<input type="hidden" name="next" value="{{ request.GET.next }}">
<button type="submit">Let's Go</button>
</form>
You can use this
return redirect(request.META.get('HTTP_REFERER'))
Make sure to import this
from django.shortcuts import redirect
You can use the HTTP_REFERER
value:
return HttpResponseRedirect(request.META.get('HTTP_REFERER', '/'))
Note that this will not work if the client disabled sending referrer information (for example, using a private/incognito browser Window). In such a case it will redirect to /
.