Error retrieving value textarea's value from form in Django - django

Question

I am new to Django. I am trying to create a simple form that has text area in it. I can't seem to retrieve the value from textarea
Here's my form:
<form method="POST" class="ui form" action="">
{% csrf_token %}
<div class="field">
<label>Title</label>
<input type="text" name="title"/>
<label> Content</label>
<textarea rows="8" name="content" ></textarea>
</div>
<button type="submit" class="ui primary button">Create</button>
</form>
Here's my how I handle the form
def createArticle(request):
if(request.method == 'POST'):
form = ArticleForm(request.POST)
if form.is_valid():
title = form.cleaned_data['title']
body = form.cleaned_data['content']
username = request.session['email']
user = User.objects.get(username=username)
I am getting this error KeyError at /create/article/
'content' at this line body = form.cleaned_data['content']
Here's the content from my post request
csrfmiddlewaretoken'CgCwDF1d03KGIxsmM2Z4hhStBRIxw9hlh1ACtYXpBWXLLvYJq2tfdO7lqds7EVxI'
title'dsadasdasdsadsadasdsadasdsadsad'
content'<p>sadasdsadasdasdasdsadasdasdsadsadsadasdsadsadsadsadsadsadsadasdasd</p>\r\n'
I am guessing the <p> tag in content is what causing the error but I have no idea idea how to get rid of that.

Answer 1

You'll need to define name and id attributes for the form, and also define a form attribute for the textarea whose value would be the value of the form's id attribute.
<form method="POST" class="ui form" action="" id="content" name="content">
{% csrf_token %}
<div class="field">
<label>Title</label>
<input type="text" name="title"/>
<label> Content</label>
<textarea rows="8" form="content" ></textarea>
</div>
<button type="submit" class="ui primary button">Create</button>
</form>