Question

Is there a way to pass a js popup value directly to a python/django view, or is necessary to capture this value with a javascript function and then do an ajax call?

For example:

<form>
    <input type="text" name="name"/>
    <input type="submit" id="submit"/>
</form>

<script type="text/javascript">
function myFunction() {

$('#submit').click(function() { 
    var name=prompt("Please enter your name","");
  });
}
</script>

If it can be done directly, how would this be done?

Answer 1

You would have to do something along the lines of:

$('#submit').click(function() {
    var name = prompt("Please enter your name", "");
    $.post('/url/to/django/handler', {'name': name});
});

to get the value the user filled out in the prompt back to your django app.