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Asked: 2026-06-03T17:15:09+00:00

I have a django project in which i have a form in a div

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I have a django project in which i have a form in a div being loaded by ajax.

when I submit the form with empty fields it returns the form with the required fields shown.

when I hit submit again it redirects to the action of the form instead of reloading the form in the div and showing errors as it does the first time I submit.

does anyone have any idea where the error might be occurring? I imagine somewhere in the ajax or view in my django project.

here is what is returned by the second submit:

{"success": false, "form": "<head>\n\n</head>\n<body>\n<form action=\"/cookbook/createrecipe/\" method=\"POST\" name=\"recipeform\" id=\"createrecipeform\">\n\t<table>\n\t\t<div style='display:none'><input type='hidden' name='csrfmiddlewaretoken' value='c5ea952ee2144b377b375d91b0843c75' /></div>\n\t\t<tr><th><label for=\"id_name\">Name:</label></th><td><ul class=\"errorlist\"><li>This field is required.</li></ul><input id=\"id_name\" type=\"text\" name=\"name\" maxlength=\"200\" /></td></tr>\n<tr><th><label for=\"id_author\">Author:</label></th><td><ul class=\"errorlist\"><li>This field is required.</li></ul><input id=\"id_author\" type=\"text\" name=\"author\" maxlength=\"100\" /></td></tr>\n<tr><th><label for=\"id_picture\">Picture:</label></th><td><input type=\"file\" name=\"picture\" id=\"id_picture\" /></td></tr>\n<tr><th><label for=\"id_ingredients\">Ingredients:</label></th><td><ul class=\"errorlist\"><li>This field cannot be null.</li></ul><textarea id=\"id_ingredients\" rows=\"10\" cols=\"40\" name=\"ingredients\"></textarea></td></tr>\n<tr><th><label for=\"id_steps\">Steps:</label></th><td><ul class=\"errorlist\"><li>This field cannot be null.</li></ul><textarea id=\"id_steps\" rows=\"10\" cols=\"40\" name=\"steps\"></textarea></td></tr>\n<tr><th><label for=\"id_prep_time\">Prep time:</label></th><td><ul class=\"errorlist\"><li>This field is required.</li></ul><input type=\"text\" name=\"prep_time\" id=\"id_prep_time\" /></td></tr>\n<tr><th><label for=\"id_type\">Type:</label></th><td><ul class=\"errorlist\"><li>This field is required.</li></ul><select name=\"type\" id=\"id_type\">\n<option value=\"\" selected=\"selected\">---------</option>\n<option value=\"SW\">Sandwich</option>\n<option value=\"AP\">Appetizers</option>\n<option value=\"SD\">Sauces and Dressings</option>\n<option value=\"SS\">Soups and Salads</option>\n<option value=\"VG\">Vegetables</option>\n<option value=\"RG\">Rice, Grains and Beans</option>\n<option value=\"PA\">Pasta</option>\n<option value=\"BR\">Breakfast</option>\n<option value=\"MT\">Meat</option>\n<option value=\"SF\">Seafood</option>\n<option value=\"BP\">Bread and Pizza</option>\n<option value=\"DT\">Desserts</option>\n</select><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"reset_recipe\" id=\"id_reset_recipe\" /></td></tr>\n\t</table>\n\t<p><input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\"></p>\n</form>\n</body>"}

here is my ajax code:

<script type="text/javascript"> 
$(document).ready(function(){
    var form = $('form#createrecipeform');
    form.submit(function(e) {
    e.preventDefault();
    console.log('ajax form submission function called successfully.');
    //form = $(this);
    console.log(form)
    var serialized_form = form.serialize();
        $.ajax({ type: "POST", 
            url: $(this).attr('action'),
            data: serialized_form, 
            success: (function(data) { 
                console.log('ajax success function called successfully.');
                data = $.parseJSON(data);
                if (data.success) {
                    console.log('success');
                } else {        
                    console.log('failure');
                    var newForm = data.form;
                    form.replaceWith(newForm);  
                }
            })
        });
        return false;
    });
});
</script>

here is the view: (createrecipe is the action of the form and account is the page that is loading the ajax)

def createrecipe(request):
        print "entering createrecipeview"
        if request.method == 'POST':
            print "form is a post"
            form = RecipeForm(request.POST)
            print form.errors
            if form.is_valid():
                print "form is valid"
                form = RecipeForm(initial = {'original_cookbook' : request.user.cookbooks.all()[0]})
                form = form.save()

                t = loader.get_template('cookbook/create_form.html')
                c = RequestContext(request, {
                'form': form,
                })

                data = {
                'replace': True,
                'form': t.render(c),
                'success': True,
                }

                json = simplejson.dumps(data)
                return HttpResponse(json, mimetype='text/plain')
            else:
                print "form is invalid"
                form = RecipeForm(request.POST)
                t = loader.get_template('cookbook/create_form.html')
                c = RequestContext(request, {
                    'form':form,
                })

                data ={
                    'form': t.render(c),
                    'success': False,
                }

                json = simplejson.dumps(data)
                return HttpResponse(json, mimetype='text/plain')

def account(request):
    user = request.user
    if request.user.is_authenticated():

        cookbooks = user.cookbooks
        if cookbooks.all().exists():
            cookbook = cookbooks.all()[0]
            form = RecipeForm(initial = {'original_cookbook' : request.user.cookbooks.all()[0]})
            recipe_list = cookbook.recipes.all()
        else:
            raise Http404
    else:
        return HttpResponseRedirect('/accounts/login')
    t = loader.get_template('cookbook/account.html')
    c = RequestContext(request, {
        'form': form,
        'recipe_list': recipe_list
    })
    return HttpResponse(t.render(c))

here is the create_form.html template:

<head>

</head>
<body>
<form action="{% url cookbook.views.createrecipe %}" method="POST" name="recipeform" id="createrecipeform">
    <table>
        {% csrf_token %}
        {{ form.as_table }}
    </table>
    <p><input type="submit" value="Submit"></p>
</form>
</body>

and here is the account template that includes the create_form template:

{% extends "cookbook/base.html" %}
{% load pagination_tags %}
{% load comments %}


    <h1>{{ user }}'s Cookbook</h1>

<ul>
{% block nav-cookbooks %}
<li><a class="nav-inactive" href="/cookbooks/">Cookbooks</a></li>
{% endblock %}
{% block nav-account %}
<li><a class="nav-active" href="/account/">My Cookbook</a></li>
{% endblock %}
</ul>
{% block content %}
{% autopaginate recipe_list 6 %}
    <div id="recipe_cont">
            {% for recipe in recipe_list %}
        <div class="recipe">
            <div class="button">    
            <a href="{% url cookbook.views.userrecipe recipe.id %}" style="display: none;"></a>   
            <img src="{{ STATIC_URL }}chicknbraw.jpg" alt="" height="70" width="70" style="display:inline;" />
            <h4>{{ recipe.name }}</h4>
             </div>
            <h5>{{ recipe.author }}</h5>
            <h5>Prep Time: {{ recipe.prep_time }} minutes</h5>

            <h6><a href="/addrecipe/{{ recipe.id }}">Add Recipe</a>
                <a href="/removerecipe/{{ recipe.id }}">Remove Recipe</a></h6>
        </div>
    {% endfor %}
    </div>

    <div id="popupContact" class="popup">
            <a id="popupContactClose" style="cursor:pointer;float:right;">x</a>
            <p id="contactArea">
            <h1 style="text-align:center">Create New Recipe</h1>
            {% include 'cookbook/create_form.html' %} 
            </p>
    </div>
    <div id="backgroundPopup">
    </div>  
    <div id="col2-footer">
    {% paginate %}
    <p id="recipe_order_text"> order by: <a href="/userbook/ordered/name">abc</a>|<a href="/userbook/ordered/date">date</a> 
    </div>

{% endblock %}

{% block footer %}
        <a class="create" style="cursor:pointer" >Create New Recipe</a>
{% endblock %}

sorry for putting so much code but it all seems to rely upon another piece of code so I figured all relevant code would be helpful

thanks for any help you can give me

katie

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  1. Editorial Team

    In your javascript, you’re hijacking the form so that it submits via ajax, but then you’re calling replaceWith on the form, so your hijacked form gets obliterated and is replaced with a new, non-hijacked form. To solve this you can either

    1) Only replace the content of the form – this should work since you’re only attaching events to the form itself and not its child elements

    2) Write your js as a function which you can call firstly on the initial form, and subsequently on any new forms loaded via ajax.

    UPDATE: for example,

    <script type="text/javascript"> 
$(document).ready(function(){

    function hijack() {
        var form = $('form#createrecipeform');
        form.submit(function(e) {
            e.preventDefault();
            console.log('ajax form submission function called successfully.');
            //form = $(this);
            console.log(form)
            var serialized_form = form.serialize();
            $.ajax({ type: "POST", 
                url: $(this).attr('action'),
                data: serialized_form, 
                success: (function(data) { 
                    console.log('ajax success function called successfully.');
                    data = $.parseJSON(data);
                    if (data.success) {
                        console.log('success');
                    } else {        
                        console.log('failure');
                        var newForm = data.form;
                        form.replaceWith(newForm);
                        hijack();
                    }
                })
            });
            return false;
        });
    };

    hijack();

});
</script>
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