Commit 40a13657 authored by Gabriel Hurley's avatar Gabriel Hurley
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[1.2.X] Fixed #15055 -- added information about (and an example of) the... 

[1.2.X] Fixed #15055 -- added information about (and an example of) the csrf_token template tag to the forms documentation. Thanks to sneakyness for the report and bpeschier for the draft patch.

Backport of [15445] from trunk.

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/branches/releases/1.2.X@15446 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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docs/topics/forms/index.txt

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@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ Forms are designed to work with the Django template language. In the above 
example, we passed our ``ContactForm`` instance to the template using the

context variable ``form``. Here's a simple example template::



    <form action="/contact/" method="post">

    <form action="/contact/" method="post">{% csrf_token %}

    {{ form.as_p }}

    <input type="submit" value="Submit" />

    </form>
@@ -180,6 +180,15 @@ context variable ``form``. Here's a simple example template:: 
The form only outputs its own fields; it is up to you to provide the surrounding

``<form>`` tags and the submit button.



.. admonition:: Forms and Cross Site Request Forgery protection



   Django ships with an easy-to-use :doc:`protection against Cross Site Request

   Forgeries </ref/contrib/csrf>`. When submitting a form via POST with

   CSRF protection enabled you must use the :ttag:`csrf_token` template tag

   as in the preceding example. However, since CSRF protection is not

   directly tied to forms in templates, this tag is omitted from the

   following examples in this document.



``form.as_p`` will output the form with each form field and accompanying label

wrapped in a paragraph. Here's the output for our example template::