diff --git a/django/contrib/comments/templatetags/comments.py b/django/contrib/comments/templatetags/comments.py
index 8e62f91eed..42691c63e4 100644
--- a/django/contrib/comments/templatetags/comments.py
+++ b/django/contrib/comments/templatetags/comments.py
@@ -306,7 +306,7 @@ def comment_form_target():
 
     Example::
 
-        <form action="{% comment_form_target %}" method="POST">
+        <form action="{% comment_form_target %}" method="post">
     """
     return comments.get_form_target()
 
diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/comments/example.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/comments/example.txt
index e9445353ca..ec600f7219 100644
--- a/docs/ref/contrib/comments/example.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/contrib/comments/example.txt
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ But let's look at a simple example::
   <!-- A context variable called form is created with the necessary hidden
   fields, timestamps and security hashes -->
   <table>
-  <form action="{% comment_form_target %}" method="POST">
+  <form action="{% comment_form_target %}" method="post">
     {{ form }}
     <tr>
       <td></td>
diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/comments/index.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/comments/index.txt
index 9f53f06299..319dadff08 100644
--- a/docs/ref/contrib/comments/index.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/contrib/comments/index.txt
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ you can use in the template::
 A complete form might look like::
 
     {% get_comment_form for event as form %}
-    <form action="{% comment_form_target %}" method="POST">
+    <form action="{% comment_form_target %}" method="post">
       {{ form }}
       <tr>
         <td></td>
@@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ You may have noticed that the above example uses another template tag --
 form. This will always return the correct URL that comments should be posted to;
 you'll always want to use it like above::
 
-    <form action="{% comment_form_target %}" method="POST">
+    <form action="{% comment_form_target %}" method="post">
 
 Redirecting after the comment post
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/csrf.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/csrf.txt
index ea76fc3739..e635a0380b 100644
--- a/docs/ref/contrib/csrf.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/contrib/csrf.txt
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ To enable CSRF protection for your views, follow these steps:
     2. In any template that uses a POST form, use the :ttag:`csrf_token` tag inside
        the ``<form>`` element if the form is for an internal URL, e.g.::
 
-           <form action="" method="POST">{% csrf_token %}
+           <form action="" method="post">{% csrf_token %}
 
        This should not be done for POST forms that target external URLs, since
        that would cause the CSRF token to be leaked, leading to a vulnerability.
diff --git a/docs/topics/forms/formsets.txt b/docs/topics/forms/formsets.txt
index e6146aeaba..974a5ca251 100644
--- a/docs/topics/forms/formsets.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/forms/formsets.txt
@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ The ``manage_articles.html`` template might look like this:
 
 .. code-block:: html+django
 
-    <form method="POST" action="">
+    <form method="post" action="">
         {{ formset.management_form }}
         <table>
             {% for form in formset.forms %}
@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ with the management form:
 
 .. code-block:: html+django
 
-    <form method="POST" action="">
+    <form method="post" action="">
         <table>
             {{ formset }}
         </table>
diff --git a/docs/topics/forms/index.txt b/docs/topics/forms/index.txt
index 0de5a6b8cb..119e943889 100644
--- a/docs/topics/forms/index.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/forms/index.txt
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ Forms are designed to work with the Django template language. In the above
 example, we passed our ``ContactForm`` instance to the template using the
 context variable ``form``. Here's a simple example template::
 
-    <form action="/contact/" method="POST">
+    <form action="/contact/" method="post">
     {{ form.as_p }}
     <input type="submit" value="Submit" />
     </form>
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ The form only outputs its own fields; it is up to you to provide the surrounding
 ``form.as_p`` will output the form with each form field and accompanying label
 wrapped in a paragraph. Here's the output for our example template::
 
-   <form action="/contact/" method="POST">
+   <form action="/contact/" method="post">
    <p><label for="id_subject">Subject:</label>
        <input id="id_subject" type="text" name="subject" maxlength="100" /></p>
    <p><label for="id_message">Message:</label>
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ If the default generated HTML is not to your taste, you can completely customize
 the way a form is presented using the Django template language. Extending the
 above example::
 
-    <form action="/contact/" method="POST">
+    <form action="/contact/" method="post">
         <div class="fieldWrapper">
             {{ form.subject.errors }}
             <label for="id_subject">E-mail subject:</label>
@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ If you're using the same HTML for each of your form fields, you can reduce
 duplicate code by looping through each field in turn using a ``{% for %}``
 loop::
 
-    <form action="/contact/" method="POST">
+    <form action="/contact/" method="post">
         {% for field in form %}
             <div class="fieldWrapper">
                 {{ field.errors }}
@@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ and visible fields independently: ``hidden_fields()`` and
 ``visible_fields()``. Here's a modification of an earlier example that uses
 these two methods::
 
-    <form action="/contact/" method="POST">
+    <form action="/contact/" method="post">
         {% for field in form.visible_fields %}
             <div class="fieldWrapper">
 
@@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ If your site uses the same rendering logic for forms in multiple places, you
 can reduce duplication by saving the form's loop in a standalone template and
 using the :ttag:`include` tag to reuse it in other templates::
 
-    <form action="/contact/" method="POST">
+    <form action="/contact/" method="post">
         {% include "form_snippet.html" %}
         <p><input type="submit" value="Send message" /></p>
     </form>
@@ -373,7 +373,7 @@ using the :ttag:`include` tag to reuse it in other templates::
 If the form object passed to a template has a different name within the
 context, you can alias it using the :ttag:`with` tag::
 
-    <form action="/comments/add/" method="POST">
+    <form action="/comments/add/" method="post">
         {% with comment_form as form %}
             {% include "form_snippet.html" %}
         {% endwith %}
diff --git a/docs/topics/forms/modelforms.txt b/docs/topics/forms/modelforms.txt
index 024479508a..7049464f86 100644
--- a/docs/topics/forms/modelforms.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/forms/modelforms.txt
@@ -705,14 +705,14 @@ There are three ways to render a formset in a Django template.
 
 First, you can let the formset do most of the work::
 
-    <form method="POST" action="">
+    <form method="post" action="">
         {{ formset }}
     </form>
 
 Second, you can manually render the formset, but let the form deal with
 itself::
 
-    <form method="POST" action="">
+    <form method="post" action="">
         {{ formset.management_form }}
         {% for form in formset.forms %}
             {{ form }}
@@ -725,7 +725,7 @@ form as shown above. See the :ref:`management form documentation
 
 Third, you can manually render each field::
 
-    <form method="POST" action="">
+    <form method="post" action="">
         {{ formset.management_form }}
         {% for form in formset.forms %}
             {% for field in form %}
@@ -738,7 +738,7 @@ If you opt to use this third method and you don't iterate over the fields with
 a ``{% for %}`` loop, you'll need to render the primary key field. For example,
 if you were rendering the ``name`` and ``age`` fields of a model::
 
-    <form method="POST" action="">
+    <form method="post" action="">
         {{ formset.management_form }}
         {% for form in formset.forms %}
             {{ form.id }}
diff --git a/tests/regressiontests/csrf_tests/tests.py b/tests/regressiontests/csrf_tests/tests.py
index 5688293647..0a24522d9c 100644
--- a/tests/regressiontests/csrf_tests/tests.py
+++ b/tests/regressiontests/csrf_tests/tests.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ from django.template import RequestContext, Template
 # Response/views used for CsrfResponseMiddleware and CsrfViewMiddleware tests
 def post_form_response():
     resp = HttpResponse(content="""
-<html><body><form method="POST"><input type="text" /></form></body></html>
+<html><body><form method="post"><input type="text" /></form></body></html>
 """, mimetype="text/html")
     return resp