My form is not displaying fields and I cant figure out why

Question

I am creating a contact form in django to send an email but the form is not displaying on the webpage. I think the issue may be because the form object may have never been passed to the context correctly, but I have no idea where it is going wrong. The code below is what I have so far.

from .forms import *

My Views

def email(request):
    form = ContactForm()
    if request.method == 'POST':
        form = ContactForm(request.POST)
        if form.is_valid():
            subject = form.cleaned_data['subject']
            email = form.cleaned_data['email']
            first_name = form.cleaned_data['first_name']
            message = form.cleaned_data['message']
            try:
                send_mail(first_name + ": " + subject, message, email,
                          ['flavioandersites@gmail.com'])
            except BadHeaderError:
                return HttpResponse("Invalid Header.")
            return redirect('thankyou')
    return render(request, 'Index-App/contact.html', {'form': form})

My Form Class

class ContactForm(forms.Form):
    subject = forms.CharField(required=True)
    from_email = forms.EmailField(required=True)
    first_name = forms.CharField(max_length=200, required=True)
    message = forms.CharField(widget=forms.Textarea)

Urls

url(r'^contact/$', views.email, name='contact'),

My Template

{% block contact %}
    <form method="POST" action="{% url 'Index-App:contact' %}">
      {% csrf_token %}
      {{ form }}
    <input type="submit" class="btn-success" value="Send"/>
    </form>
    {% endblock %}

Answer 1

Because you are not instantiating your form when method is GET . Also, you need to change self param to request

Try the following:

def email(request):  # pass request for your view param, not self
    form = ContactForm()  # You should instantiate your form for GET method
    if request.method == 'POST':
        form = ContactForm(request.POST)
        # ...
    return render(request, 'Index-App/contact.html', {'form': form})