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**Category:** Dashboard\
**Created:** [9 September 2019 12:48 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-template-html-form-output-without-post-method/15318 "2019-09-09T12:48:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:**  [@chandrashekar](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/chandrashekar)\
**Post date:** [9 September 2019 12:48 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-template-html-form-output-without-post-method/15318/1 "2019-09-09T12:48:38Z")
I have a html form in dashboard template.
iam trying to get payload containing form values without POST method.
POST method works fine.
i want form values in an array or an object format upon submitting the form. but dont want the POST method which will take it to different URL. On submitting form i want to remain in same page but i should get payload.
if anyone can guide with an example it would be good.
Thanks in advance
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**Author:**  [@dceejay](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dceejay)\
**Post date:** [9 September 2019 14:42 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-template-html-form-output-without-post-method/15318/2 "2019-09-09T14:42:52Z")
If you set the response code to 304 - it should tell the browser that the page is not modified and so it should not move away - [https://www.restapitutorial.com/httpstatuscodes.html](https://www.restapitutorial.com/httpstatuscodes.html)
This may not be what you really want - as you usually expect to get some feedback... but...
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**Author:**  [@Alacritous](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Alacritous)\
**Post date:** [10 September 2019 00:18 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-template-html-form-output-without-post-method/15318/3 "2019-09-10T00:18:48Z")
I would use JavaScript to form a JSON packet or a GET request with the information and submit it to a handler on the webserver.
In node-red you can send an http request to an http input node and handle the request and response in a function.
you can create a script in the webpage that will take the form elements and put them together into a get request without using the form. This won't navigate way from the page unless you want it to.
For example, this is how I send stuff to my MQTT broker from various places on my network that don't have MQTT functionality built in. I use this mostly from Tasker on my phone. I don't like any of the Tasker MQTT clients. So I just make Tasker send a get request to node-red.
Anything can send an http GET to my node-red server that looks like this.
`http://192.168.0.18:1880/mqttin?t=&v=`
Anything that can make an http get request can do it.
```auto
[
{
"id": "7cc5a391.4e129c",
"type": "http in",
"z": "69aac232.e405ec",
"name": "mqttservice",
"url": "/mqttin",
"method": "get",
"upload": false,
"swaggerDoc": "",
"x": 110,
"y": 40,
"wires": [
[
"92a4d05f.790f68"
]
]
},
{
"id": "d865d6ab.68c738",
"type": "mqtt out",
"z": "69aac232.e405ec",
"name": "Send package to MQTT server",
"topic": "",
"qos": "",
"retain": "",
"broker": "5e8886da.2dbd9",
"x": 670,
"y": 40,
"wires": []
},
{
"id": "ff83b65e.00f328",
"type": "http response",
"z": "69aac232.e405ec",
"name": "HTTP response to request",
"statusCode": "",
"headers": {},
"x": 660,
"y": 80,
"wires": []
},
{
"id": "92a4d05f.790f68",
"type": "function",
"z": "69aac232.e405ec",
"name": "Convert from URL GET to msg object",
"func": "msg.topic = msg.payload.t;\nmsg.payload = msg.payload.v;\nreturn msg;",
"outputs": 1,
"noerr": 0,
"x": 370,
"y": 40,
"wires": [
[
"d865d6ab.68c738",
"ff83b65e.00f328"
]
]
},
{
"id": "5e8886da.2dbd9",
"type": "mqtt-broker",
"z": "",
"name": "localMQTT",
"broker": "192.168.0.18",
"port": "1883",
"clientid": "NR",
"usetls": false,
"compatmode": false,
"keepalive": "60",
"cleansession": true,
"birthTopic": "",
"birthQos": "0",
"birthPayload": "",
"closeTopic": "",
"closePayload": "",
"willTopic": "",
"willQos": "0",
"willPayload": ""
}
]
```
There are many assorted ways to accomplish this in javascript.
Here's where you can start.
> **[Here are the most popular ways to make an HTTP request in JavaScript](https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/here-is-the-most-popular-ways-to-make-an-http-request-in-javascript-954ce8c95aaa/)**
>
> by SaidHayani@
>
> Here are the most popular ways to make an HTTP request in JavaScript
> JavaScript has great modules and methods to make HTTP requests that can be used
> to send or receive data from a server side resource. In this article, we are
> going to...
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**Author:**  [@chandrashekar](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/chandrashekar)\
**Post date:** [10 September 2019 05:16 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-template-html-form-output-without-post-method/15318/4 "2019-09-10T05:16:16Z")
thanks this worked
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**Author:**  [@chandrashekar](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/chandrashekar)\
**Post date:** [10 September 2019 05:18 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-template-html-form-output-without-post-method/15318/5 "2019-09-10T05:18:00Z")
Thanks will try to handle things within javascript for my future projects , thanks for this information.
Currently used response 304 for the solution