How can I make the href for a button use urls.py?

Question

I need to add a 'Cancel' button to my ModelForm, I am using crispy forms but when I add href='personnel-index' to redirect back to the list view, it does not. I've checked their documentation but no luck nor any luck on Google.

Answer 1

Sometimes the browser's 'Back' button does just as well as a 'Cancel' button in a web form, but if you are absolutely sure you need one, you can always use the HTML object in crispy forms. Something like this would work:

HTML("""<a class="classes-for-styling" href="/personnel/list/">Cancel</a>""")

And, even better, you can include context aware tags to avoid hard-coding urls into your form:

HTML("""<a class="classes-for-styling" href="{% url 'personnel-index' %}">Cancel</a>""")

Then it's just up to you to style your link so it looks like a button.