Passing custom html template doesn't work with reset password in django

Question

I am implementing reset page for my django application. Everything works fine if i use auth_views.PasswordResetView.as_view() without passing in template_name. It uses default django provided templates and i get confirmation email and password is successfully reset but i want to pass in my own template to do so which has simple form with an image and one input tag for email. The view shows up fine but when i click submit it only shows 1 post request in console.

I have tried implementing registration directory since in source code it uses that but no luck so far. I have also changed input to a button for submitting. I tried removing extra styling classes for css too.

I am using following path for reset page.

path('login/password-reset/',
        auth_views.PasswordResetView.as_view(),
        name = 'password_reset' ),

Passing following generated the view but when i submit the email it doesnt get me to reset_done.

 path('login/password-reset/',
        auth_views.PasswordResetView.as_view(template_name = 'login/password_reset_form.html'),
        name = 'password_reset' ),

Rest of my urls are as follows:

path('login/password-reset/done',
        auth_views.PasswordResetDoneView.as_view(),
        name = 'password_reset_done' ),   
path('login/password-reset-confirm/<uidb64>/<token>/',
        auth_views.PasswordResetConfirmView.as_view(),
        name = 'password_reset_confirm' ),      
path('login/password-reset-complete/',
        auth_views.PasswordResetCompleteView.as_view(),
         name='password_reset_complete'),

template is here:

<form method="POST" class="register-form" id="login-form" action= '' >
{% csrf_token %}
<div class="form-group">
    <label for="your_name">Enter registered email</label>
    <input type="text" name="your_name" id="your_name" placeholder="Email"/>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
    <input type="submit" name="signin" id="signin" class="form-submit" value="Reset"/>
</div>
</form>

Any help would be appreciated!

Presumably the issue is with your template - please post the contents of the template file. — solarissmoke
I have updated my question with the template link. Sorry totally forgot to attach it earlier. — sh_07

solarissmoke solarissmoke · Accepted Answer · 2019-07-07T05:34:58

Your custom template has this input:

<input type="text" name="your_name" id="your_name" placeholder="Email"/>

Which is invalid because Django's PasswordResetForm expects a field whose name is email, not your_name. Thus the form will fail to validate and the view will re-render the form with errors. You need to use something like:

<input type="text" name="email" id="id_email" placeholder="Email"/>

Even better is not to render the field yourself, but to let Django render it with:

{{ form.email.errors }}
{{ form.email }}

... so that you are not hard-coding field names. In addition you were not rendering form errors, which is why you didn't realise the form was invalid.

Passing custom html template doesn't work with reset password in django

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