Django form not rendering in HTML - html

Question

I have a form that isn't rendering and I can't figure out why. The only thing showing is submit button. I created the form having followed the methodology described here, here and here.
I looked at solutions for the problem (listed below amongst others) but they havent helped.
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The html is app_core/index.html which extends another- landing_page/base.html
The html:
{% extends 'landing_page/base.html' %}
{% load i18n %}
{% load staticfiles %}
{% load static %}
{% load bootstrap %}
{%block content %}
<div id="contactus" class="container-fluid">
<br>
<div class="container text-center">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-xs-12 col-sm-10 col-sm-offset-1 col-md-10 col-md-offset-1 col-lg-8 col-lg-offset-2 text-left">
<center><h3>{% trans 'Contact Us' %}</h3>
<p>{% trans 'We are at your disposal 365 days 24 hours a day. When you think of languages think of Milingual.
Languages are not studied, they are lived!' %}</p></center>
</div>
</div>
<div class ="row">
<div class="col-xs-12 col-sm-10 col-sm-offset-1 col-md-10 col-md-offset-1 col-lg-8 col-lg-offset-2 text-left">
<center><h1>Contact Us</h1><center>
<form id="contactus-form" action="{% url 'contact' %}"method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
{% csrf_token %}
{{ form.as_p }}
<br/>
<div class="form-actions">
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary pull-center">Send</button>
</div>
</form>
<div>
</div>
</div>
{%endblock content %}
The Views.py
from django.core.mail import BadHeaderError
from django.http import HttpResponse, HttpResponseRedirect
from django.shortcuts import render, redirect
from .forms import ContactForm
#ContactUs
def contact(request):
if request.method == 'GET':
form = ContactForm()
else:
form = ContactForm(request.POST)
if form.is_valid():
whoareyou = form.cleaned_data['whoareyou']
name = form.cleaned_data['name']
phone_number = form.cleaned_data['phone_number']
subject = form.cleaned_data['subject']
from_email = form.cleaned_data['from_email']
message = form.cleaned_data['message']
try:
send_email(subject, message, whoareyou, from_email, ['thiswaysouth#gmail.com'])
except BadHeaderError:
return HttpResponse('Invalid header found.')
return redirect('success')
return render(request, "/index.html", {'form': form})
def success(request):
return HttpResponse('Success! Thank you for your message.')
The form.py
from django import forms
class ContactForm(forms.Form):
WHOAREYOU_CHOICES = (
('Teacher', 'Teacher'),
('Student', 'Student'),
('Venue', 'Venue'),
('Business', 'Business'),
('Other', 'Other')
)
whoareyou = forms.ChoiceField(choices=WHOAREYOU_CHOICES, required=True)
name = forms.CharField(required=True)
phone_number = forms.CharField(required=True)
from_email = forms.EmailField(required=True)
subject = forms.CharField(required=True)
message = forms.CharField(widget=forms.Textarea, required=True)
And the urls.py
from django.conf.urls import url, include
from .views import *
from app_core import views
urlpatterns = [
url(r'^$', IndexPage, name='index'),
# setting session city
url(r'^get-city-session$', GetCitySession, name='get-city-session'),
url(r'^set-city-session$', SetCitySession, name='set-city-session'),
url(r'^contact/$', views.contact, name='contact'),
url(r'^success/$', views.success, name='success'),
]

Answer 1

You need to put your code inside blocks otherwise it doesn't know where to put it when you extend. In your base.html, you can do something like
{% block body %}
{% endblock %}
And then in your index.html page, you need to surround everything that you want to appear in that spot in your base.
{% block body %}
... Code goes here ...
{% endblock %}

Answer 2

This ended having a very simple solution that I failed to notice simply because of my naivete and newness to programming. The above code was and is perfectly correctly but I neglected to add crucial line of code in the ContactForm code in form.py. At the end of the form I was simply to add the following lines and it rendered perfectly:
class ContactForm(forms.Form):
WHOAREYOU_CHOICES ...
class Meta:
fields =('whoareyou','name','phone_number','from_email','subject','message')