How to redirect to previous page in Django after POST request

Question

I face a problem which I can\'t find a solution for. I have a button in navbar which is available on all pages and it is a button responsible for creating some content.

Answer 1

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

    {% csrf_token %}
    {{ form }}
    
    Let's Go

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

Go to my form!

template.html

    {% csrf_token %}
    {{ form }}
    
    Let's Go