Cannot pass variables to Django 3 method from HTML template - python-3.x

Question

I am a Django newbie who is trying to convert an existing HTML based website to Django 3. The only complex piece of this page is a call to a Django method that uses the django.core.mail package and everything works, but, I am trying to pull some data off of the HTML template and pass it to this method.
The method works, only it sends a blank email. I am trying to pass contact information that the end user would fill out on the form. If I hard code the data into the method it works.
I have tried passing the data through urls.py, but, everything I try fails to even parse when I call the method. When I use a request.GET.get everything seems to work, just no data.
I was hoping to use something similar to JQuery like the following in the method.
name = str(request.GET.get('Name:', '').strip())
email = str(request.GET.get('Email:', '').strip())
msg1 = str(request.GET.get('Message:', '').strip())
with the fields being in the HTML form.
I am going to include some of the relevant configuration items below.
urls.py
from django.urls import path
from django.conf import settings
from django.conf.urls import url
from django.conf.urls.static import static
from . import views
app_name = 'willdoit'
urlpatterns = [
path('', views.index),
#url(r'^contact/(?P<name>\.+)/(?P<email>\.+)/(?P<msg1>\.+)/?$', views.contact, name='contact'),
path('contact/', views.contact, name='contact'),
]
views.py
def contact(request):
name1 = request.GET.get('name', '')
email1= request.GET.get('email', '')
msg1 = request.GET.get('message1', '')
subject = 'Work needed'
from_email = settings.DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL
message = name + ' ' + email + ' ' + msg1
recipient_list = ['pkustra914#gmail.com']
send_mail(subject, message, from_email, recipient_list, fail_silently=False)
return HttpResponse('Success')
Relevant HTML Template section
<div class="contact_content">
<div class="col-md-6 col-sm-6 col-xs-12">
<div class="contact_message wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-duration="1.5s">
<form action="#" id="formid">
<form action="#" id="formid">
<div class="form-group"> <input class="form-control" name="name"
placeholder="Name" required="" type="text"> </div>
<div class="form-group"> <input class="form-control" name="email"
placeholder="Email" required="" type="email"> </div>
<div class="form-group">
<div class="Descrizione"> <label for="InserisciDescrizione"
class=""><b>Message</b></label> <textarea class="form-control"
id="message" placeholder="Type message:" name="message1" rows="6" cols="50"
title="Message"></textarea> </div>
<a id="submit" href="{% url 'willdoit:contact' %}" class="btn btn-primary">Submit</a>
I would prefer to use the request.GET.get method, but, there is a lot more documentation passing it through the urls.
Thanks.

Answer 1

Your code request.GET.get('Name:', '') returns empty string when the key 'Name:' is not found.
To fix this, use request.GET.get('name', '') request.GET.get('email', '') request.GET.get('message', '') instead.
Details
I see that you are using a with template tag for nothing. The following line of code does not change the name attribute string to PascalCase. See with template tag (Docs)
{% with Name=name Email=email Message=message %}
Even if it worked, your code should be calling request.GET.get('Name', '') instead of request.GET.get('Name:', ''). But it won't work, as with would not modify the attribute names in the GET request.
#EDIT1
There are apparently more bugs in your html code. I have reformatted your code and listed up some obvious bugs.
<!--REFORMATTED CODE-->
<form action="#" id="formid"> <--------------DUPLICATES, remove one
<form action="#" id="formid"> <--------------DUPLICATES, remove one
<div class="form-group"> <input class="form-control" name="name"
placeholder="Name" required="" type="text"> </div>
<div class="form-group"> <input class="form-control" name="email"
placeholder="Email" required="" type="email"> </div>
<div class="form-group">
<div class="Descrizione">
<label for="InserisciDescrizione" class=""><b>Message</b></label>
<textarea class="form-control" id="message"
placeholder="Type message:" name="message1" rows="6" cols="50"
title="Message"></textarea>
</div>
<a id="submit" href="{% url 'willdoit:contact' %}"
class="btn btn-primary">Submit</a>
<-------- MISSING DIV END TAG
<-------- MISSING FORM END TAG
Furthermore, you are calling the server by url directly using the following code:
<a id="submit" href="{% url 'willdoit:contact' %}" class="btn btn-primary">Submit</a>
This does not tell the page which form you want to submit (there are cases where there are multiple forms).
You have two choices:
Replace the tag with standard html form submit button <input type="submit">, and add the url to the action attribute of the form. Use the following code to do so:
<form action="{% url 'willdoit:contact' %} id="formid">
...
...
<input id="submit" type="submit" class="btn btn-primary" value="Submit"/>
</form>
This solution will by default use the GET method to send a request to the server, and you will be able to get the inputted values by calling request.GET.get(name).
If you are using JQuery, you can replace the with the following:
Submit
This is however not recommended. Please use the standard html form input tag for the submit button.

Answer 2

Great. Moving the method call to the form tag worked great.
Thanks! You guys are the best.