Post values from an HTML form and access them in a Flask view
I have an HTML form that gets posted to a Flask route. However, request.form
is empty. If I try to access one of the values by id, I get a 400 error. How do I post values from an HTML form and access them in Flask?
<form method="POST">
<input id="my_input" type="text" value="{{ email }}">
<input id="my_submit" type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>
@app.route('/page', methods=['POST', 'GET'])
def get_page():
if request.method == 'POST':
print(request.form) # prints ImmutableMultiDict([])
print(request.form['my_input']) # raises 400 error
return render_template('page.html')
Your input
doesn't have a name
attribute. That is what the client will pass along to the server. Flask will raise a 400 error if you access a form key that wasn't submitted.
<input name="my_input" id="my_input" type="text" value="{{ email }}">