How to send html email with django with dynamic content in it?
Can anyone please help me sending html email with dynamic contents. One way is to copy the entire html code into a variable and populate the dynamic code within it in Django views, but that does not seem to be a good idea, as its a very large html file.
I would appreciate any suggestions.
Thanks.
Solution 1:
Django includes the django.core.mail.send_mail method these days (2018), no need to use EmailMultiAlternatives class directly. Do this instead:
from django.core import mail
from django.template.loader import render_to_string
from django.utils.html import strip_tags
subject = 'Subject'
html_message = render_to_string('mail_template.html', {'context': 'values'})
plain_message = strip_tags(html_message)
from_email = 'From <[email protected]>'
to = '[email protected]'
mail.send_mail(subject, plain_message, from_email, [to], html_message=html_message)
This will send an email which is visible in both html-capable browsers and will show plain text in crippled email viewers.
Solution 2:
Example:
from django.core.mail import EmailMultiAlternatives
from django.template.loader import render_to_string
from django.utils.html import strip_tags
subject, from_email, to = 'Subject', '[email protected]', '[email protected]'
html_content = render_to_string('mail_template.html', {'varname':'value'}) # render with dynamic value
text_content = strip_tags(html_content) # Strip the html tag. So people can see the pure text at least.
# create the email, and attach the HTML version as well.
msg = EmailMultiAlternatives(subject, text_content, from_email, [to])
msg.attach_alternative(html_content, "text/html")
msg.send()
Solution 3:
For anyone looking at this in 2020 and using django v3.x (I don't know when this was introduced so it might work for earlier versions.
Note: I only wanted to include an html version without a plain text version. My django view:
from django.template.loader import render_to_string
from django.core.mail import EmailMessage
# import html message.html file
html_template = 'path/to/message.html'
html_message = render_to_string(html_template, { 'context': context, })
message = EmailMessage(subject, html_message, from_email, [to_email])
message.content_subtype = 'html' # this is required because there is no plain text email message
message.send()
My html file (message.html) looked like this:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Order received</title>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"/>
</head>
<body style="margin: 0; padding: 0;">
<table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="320" style="border: none; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5;">
...
content
...
</table>
</body>
</html>
More details here: Send alternative content types from django docs