Django Not Saving Form Data

I fill the Django form in contact.html file. But form data is not saved in database or another place. There is no error or warning while saving the form data.

Form screenshot:

Form screenshot.

views.py:

from .forms import CnForm

def contact(request):
    template = loader.get_template('contact.html')
    form = CnForm(request.POST or None)
    if form.is_valid():
        form.save()
    context = {'form': form }
    return HttpResponse(template.render(context, request))

models.py:

from django.db import models

class FModel(models.Model):
    first_name = models.CharField(max_length=100)
    last_name = models.CharField(max_length=100)

    def __str__(self):
        return self.first_name

forms.py:

from django import forms
from .models import FModel

class CnForm(forms.ModelForm):
    class Meta:
        model = FModel
        fields = "__all__"

contact.html:

    <div class="contact-container">
      <form action = "" method = "post">
        {% csrf_token %}
        {{ form }}
        <input type="submit" value="Submit">
      </form>
    </div>

urls.py:

urlpatterns = [
    .
    .
    .
    path('contact', views.contact, name='contact'),
]

Your view renders the template before redirecting or clearing the form, but the main issue is that you are not handling POST requests properly.
Django only saves the form if request.method == 'POST' and the form passes validation.

Try this version of your view:

from django.shortcuts import render, redirect
from .forms import CnForm

def contact(request):
    if request.method == 'POST':
        form = CnForm(request.POST)
        if form.is_valid():
            form.save()
            return redirect('contact')  # optional redirect to avoid resubmission
    else:
        form = CnForm()
    return render(request, 'contact.html', {'form': form})

  1. Always check request.method before creating the form.

  2. When you don’t do that, the form gets initialized with request.POST even for GET requests, so form.is_valid() will fail silently.

  3. Using redirect() after save prevents duplicate submissions when refreshing the page.

Add this in your HTML to make sure you see errors if any field fails validation:

<form method="post">
  {% csrf_token %}
  {{ form.as_p }}
  {{ form.errors }}
  <input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>

Now if validation fails, you’ll see error messages directly on the page.

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