Forms

For stronger resiliency and user experience, Fresh relies on native browser support for form submissions with the HTML <form> element.

In the browser, a <form> submit will send an HTML action (usually GET or POST) to the server, which responds with a new page to render.

POST request with `multipart/form-data`

Forms can either submit as a GET request with URL search parameter encoding, or as a POST request with multipart/form-data.

This example demonstrates how to handle multipart/form-data <form> submissions:

// routes/subscribe.tsx
import { Handlers } from "$fresh/server.ts";

export const handler: Handlers = {
  async GET(req, ctx) {
    return await ctx.render();
  },
  async POST(req, ctx) {
    const form = await req.formData();
    const email = form.get("email")?.toString();

    // Add email to list.

    // Redirect user to thank you page.
    const headers = new Headers();
    headers.set("location", "/thanks-for-subscribing");
    return new Response(null, {
      status: 303, // See Other
      headers,
    });
  },
};

export default function Subscribe() {
  return (
    <>
      <form method="post">
        <input type="email" name="email" value="" />
        <button type="submit">Subscribe</button>
      </form>
    </>
  );
}

When the user submits the form, Deno will access a specific email value from a formData(), add the email to a list, and redirect the user to a thank you page.

POST request with multipart/form-data

POST request with `multipart/form-data`