为什么我的Django视图无法从Django模板中创建的标签接收数据？

Question

Django view:

  if request.method == 'POST':
      myData = request.POST.get('tester', None)
      print myData

Django template (jquery and javascript):

  var i = document.createElement('input');
  i.setAttribute('type', 'hidden');
  i.setAttribute('id', 'tester');
  i.setAttribute('name','tester');
  i.setAttribute('value', 'PLEASE GET THIS!');
  $('#tester').appendTo('body');
  $('#add_here').before(i);

I have no issue getting the value from an tag that is hardcoded into the template file but I am having a problem getting the value from an tag that I have created using jQuery and javascript. Any hints?

Thank you in advance!

Answer 1

I have discovered the issue. There was a random closing /div tag in my HTML that didn't have an opening tag. I removed it and the code started working like it should. For reasons unknown to me, the random /div wasn't allowing the created elements to appear in the POST data. The elements were showing up in the right places when I did the inspect element, but when you look at the actual POST data the elements were not there.

I hope this saves someone the time it cost me. Here are some links to help you validate your HTML. These are the links I used to discover my problem.

http://www.freeformatter.com/html-validator.html

http://validator.w3.org/#validate_by_input