How can I embed django csrf token straight into HTML?

Question

within my django app I am storing strings of html in the db that will then be displayed on the users\' home pages as \"messages\". Some of these messages contain forms, but not

Answer 1

The accepted answer assumes that token is already set in the request object.

Maybe something like this is better:

from django.middleware import csrf
def get_or_create_csrf_token(request):
    token = request.META.get('CSRF_COOKIE', None)
    if token is None:
        token = csrf._get_new_csrf_key()
        request.META['CSRF_COOKIE'] = token
    request.META['CSRF_COOKIE_USED'] = True
    return token