How to csrf_token protection in jinja2 template engine?

Question

In Django template I used:

<form action="/user" method="post">{% csrf_token %}     {{ form.as_p|safe }}     <input type="submit" value="Submit" /> </form> 

But error when I change to jinja2 template engine:

 Encountered unknown tag 'csrf_token' 

My question: csrf_token protection in jinja2 is required?

If required, how to do this?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

It seems Jinja2 works differently:

Use <input type="hidden" name="csrfmiddlewaretoken" value="{{ csrf_token }}"> where in Django templates you use {% csrf_token %}

source : http://exyr.org/2010/Jinja-in-Django/

Answer 2

I know this is an old question, but I wanted to update it with the proper way to support the csrf_token when using the new django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2 available in Django 1.8+. Using the django template backend you would have called {% csrf_token %}, but using the Jinja2 backend you will call it using {{ csrf_input }} (you can get just the token value instead of the token input using {{ csrf_token }}).

You can see the details in the django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2 source