Why do you want to avoid the redirect? You could do

HX-Redirect

or

HX-Location

(which isn't technically a redirect). https://htmx.org/reference/#response_headers

I want to avoid redirections for 2 reasons: 1) Using a redirect reloads the whole page and is slower than loading the required fragment only. To me, this speed / "spa-like feeling" is the whole interest of HTMX. 2) Because it would break my custom toast message system. A full HTTP redirection will remove the current displayed messages in the DOM. I want to keep the ability to navigate between "pages" without erase the current messages (like a SPA). To not break my toast system, I need to ensure a part of the DOM is never removed. However, I'm curious about how the

HX-Location

could (or not) fix my problem.

Thanks. I thought of this one, but I think that trying to use a "all-in-one" view a very complex, and not very scalable. I think a view should keep dedicated to do a single action.

maybe on the form response HTML you could attach an

hx-trigger="load"

to immediately go and fetch the detail view HTML

I rewrote my download to the following:

python
def download(request, pk):
    if request.htmx:
        link = f"""download/{pk}" """
        tmp = f"""hx-trigger="load" hx-redirect="{static(link)}" """
        return HttpResponse(format_html(f"""<img {tmp} src="{static('images/startl.svg')}">"""))
    else:
        return FileResponse(open() ...)

I hoped I can directly load an Htmx indication ICON, and put a redirect on the file on it ... not soo smart?

but the load is never being fired

Did you miss a " in link-f-string?

also why are you using those triple quotes... makes readability super tough

I kind of like the """ fstring annoation

html
<img hx-trigger="load" hx-redirect="/static/download/880" src="/static/images/startl.svg" class="">

this is what I can see in the webdev console after the click, which seems correct. But it is not fired

is this because the swapped in "load" attribute is not being fired?

I kind of hoped it would fire right away

What are you trying to do?

hx-redirect

isn't an attribute you can use in your HTML it's a header you can set on the response. You'll also need to swap

src

to

hx-get

for the

load

trigger to do anything, otherwise your image is already loaded

you dont need to use triple quotes to use f-strings

Yes, I'm often using this technique. It's two successive GET 200. This first time with a simple div with the hx-get and the load trigger. Works very well.

It's not a beginner question at this stage. I see your point, someone in #939530480636809227 channel ask something very similar about avoiding the redirection. You could extract the logic I described before in a mixin, and use

fragment_name

class attribute to know what to render in

form_valid

.

Hello, I have a small question: is it possible that my page refreshes only when I receive a POST in my django views?

there is no way for example to send a POST with my views to activate a refresh in my html with the htmx?

if you DONT use htmx it will refresh the page

but the point of htmx is that it will not reload the complete website

yes but in fact it's because my data has each a popup and it closes 5s later seen that the page refreshes

Don't refresh the whole page, maybe?

I only refresh a section where there is my data

it is not possible to refresh from the views ?

for example make a request from the views and if it receives the request it refreshes the page?

You want to target the body in your hx-post and the data section in your hx-get?

I'm just looking for a simple way to refresh my page when I get new data 😅

htmx works fine, but it just closes my modal 5s later

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