The ‘‘hidden’’ input tag puts the relevant information on the page without displaying it in the browser.

We can now include the follow form and the following statistics on the user profile page simply by rendering the partials, as shown in Listing 11.27. Profiles with follow and unfollow buttons, respectively, appear in Figure 11.12 and Figure 11.13.

We’ll get these buttons working soon enough—in fact, we’ll do it two ways, the standard way (Section 11.2.4) and using Ajax (Section 11.2.5)—but first we’ll finish the HTML interface by making the following and followers pages.