Make a link use POST instead of GET

HTML + JQuery: A link that submits a hidden form with POST.

Since I spent a lot of time to understand all these answers, and since all of them have some interesting details, here is the combined version that finally worked for me and which I prefer for its simplicity.

My approach is again to create a hidden form and to submit it by clicking a link somewhere else in the page. It doesn't matter where in the body of the page the form will be placed.

The code for the form:

<form id="myHiddenFormId" action="myAction.php" method="post" style="display: none">
  <input type="hidden" name="myParameterName" value="myParameterValue">
</form>

Description:

The display: none hides the form. You can alternatively put it in a div or another element and set the display: none on the element.

The type="hidden" will create an fild that will not be shown but its data will be transmitted to the action eitherways (see W3C). I understand that this is the simplest input type.

The code for the link:

<a href="" onclick="$('#myHiddenFormId').submit(); return false;" title="My link title">My link text</a>

Description:

The empty href just targets the same page. But it doesn't really matter in this case since the return false will stop the browser from following the link. You may want to change this behavior of course. In my specific case, the action contained a redirection at the end.

The onclick was used to avoid using href="javascript:..." as noted by mplungjan. The $('#myHiddenFormId').submit(); was used to submit the form (instead of defining a function, since the code is very small).

This link will look exactly like any other <a> element. You can actually use any other element instead of the <a> (for example a <span> or an image).

Instead using javascript, you could also use a label sending a hidden form. Very simple and small solution. The label can be anywhere in your html.

<form style="display: none" action="postUrl" method="post">
  <button type="submit" id="button_to_link"> </button>
</form>
<label style="text-decoration: underline" for="button_to_link">  link that posts </label>

As mentioned in many posts, this is not directly possible, but an easy and successful way is as follows: First, we put a form in the body of our html page, which does not have any buttons for the submit, and also its inputs are hidden. Then we use a javascript function to get the data and ,send the form. One of the advantages of this method is to redirect to other pages, which depends on the server-side code. The code is as follows: and now in anywhere you need an to be in "POST" method:

<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
function post_link(data){

    $('#post_form').find('#form_input').val(data);
    $('#post_form').submit();
};
</script>

   <form id="post_form" action="anywhere/you/want/" method="POST">
 {% csrf_token %}
    <input id="form_input" type="hidden" value="" name="form_input">
</form>

<a href="javascript:{}" onclick="javascript:post_link('data');">post link is ready</a>

I suggest a more dynamic approach, without html coding into the page, keep it strictly JS:

$("a.AS-POST").on('click', e => {
  e.preventDefault()
  let frm = document.createElement('FORM')
  frm.id='frm_'+Math.random()
  frm.method='POST'
  frm.action=e.target.href
  document.body.appendChild(frm)
  frm.submit()
})

Check this it will help you

$().redirect('test.php', {'a': 'value1', 'b': 'value2'});