jQuery: setting up CSRF token for Django not working

Question

my jQuery function looks like

$(function() {
    // activate \"New\" buttons if input is not empty
    $(\'form input[type=\"text\"]\').live(\'k         


        

Answer 1

In my case I have a template in which I don't want to have a

element. But I still want to make AJAX POST requests using jQuery.

I got 403 errors, due to CSRF cookie being null, even if I followed the django docs (https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.5/ref/contrib/csrf/). The solution is in the same page, mentioning the ensure_csrf_cookie decorator.

My CSRF cookie did get set when I added this at the top of my views.py:

from django.views.decorators.csrf import ensure_csrf_cookie
@ensure_csrf_cookie

Also, please note that in this case you do not need the DOM element in your markup / template: {% csrf_token %}