Distinguish which link-button clicked in django - django

Question

I have that html code:
<form id="my-form" method="POST" action="{% url 'my_view' %}">
{% csrf_token %}
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-6">
<div class="md-form mb-1">
<textarea id="message" name="message" rows="2" class="form-control md-textarea"></textarea>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-md-6">
<div class="md-form mb-1">
<textarea id="message_then" name="message_then" rows="2" class="form-control md-textarea"></textarea>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="text-center text-md-left">
<a class="btn btn-primary" onclick="document.getElementById('my-form').submit();" style="width: 78px;" name="name1">Click1</a>
</div>
<div class="text-center text-md-left">
<a class="btn btn-primary" onclick="document.getElementById('my-form').submit();" style="width: 78px;" name="name2">Click2</a>
</div>
</form>
Now I would like to get to know which "button" was clicked. Unfortunately request.POST doesn't have that information.

Answer 1

You should add another field to specify which button has been clicked.
Exp:
Add this to your form
then update your "a" elements onclick event code like this:
<a class="btn btn-primary" onclick="update_form(this)" style="width: 78px;">Click1</a>
And finally some js code to update the form
<script>
function update_form(button){
document.getElementById("id_button").value = document.getElementById(button).innerText;
document.getElementById('my-form').submit();
}
</script>
In your django view use this to get the selected button:
request.POST['id_button']