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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::