[Django]-How to send html email with django with dynamic content in it?

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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 <from@example.com>'
to = 'to@example.com'

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.

👤Babken Vardanyan

76👍

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', 'from@xxx.com', 'to@xxx.com'

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()
👤Marvin W

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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

👤alkadelik

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This should do what you want:

from django.core.mail import EmailMessage
from django.template import Context
from django.template.loader import get_template


template = get_template('myapp/email.html')
context = Context({'user': user, 'other_info': info})
content = template.render(context)
if not user.email:
    raise BadHeaderError('No email address given for {0}'.format(user))
msg = EmailMessage(subject, content, from, to=[user.email,])
msg.send()

See the django mail docs for more.

👤blokeley

8👍

Try this::::

https://godjango.com/19-using-templates-for-sending-emails/

sample code link

# views.py

from django.http import HttpResponse
from django.template import Context
from django.template.loader import render_to_string, get_template
from django.core.mail import EmailMessage

def email_one(request):
    subject = "I am a text email"
    to = ['buddy@buddylindsey.com']
    from_email = 'test@example.com'

    ctx = {
        'user': 'buddy',
        'purchase': 'Books'
    }

    message = render_to_string('main/email/email.txt', ctx)

    EmailMessage(subject, message, to=to, from_email=from_email).send()

    return HttpResponse('email_one')

def email_two(request):
    subject = "I am an HTML email"
    to = ['buddy@buddylindsey.com']
    from_email = 'test@example.com'

    ctx = {
        'user': 'buddy',
        'purchase': 'Books'
    }

    message = get_template('main/email/email.html').render(Context(ctx))
    msg = EmailMessage(subject, message, to=to, from_email=from_email)
    msg.content_subtype = 'html'
    msg.send()

    return HttpResponse('email_two')
👤vijay

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If you want dynamic email templates for your mail then save the email content in your database tables.
This is what i saved as HTML code in database = 

<p>Hello.. {{ first_name }} {{ last_name }}.  <br> This is an <strong>important</strong> {{ message }}
<br> <b> By Admin.</b>

 <p style='color:red'> Good Day </p>

In your views: 

from django.core.mail import EmailMultiAlternatives
from django.template.loader import get_template

def dynamic_email(request):
    application_obj = AppDetails.objects.get(id=1)
    subject = 'First Interview Call'
    email = request.user.email
    to_email = application_obj.email
    message = application_obj.message

    text_content = 'This is an important message.'
    d = {'first_name': application_obj.first_name,'message':message}
    htmly = FirstInterviewCall.objects.get(id=1).html_content #this is what i have saved previously in database which i have to send as Email template as mentioned above HTML code

    open("partner/templates/first_interview.html", "w").close() # this is the path of my file partner is the app, Here i am clearing the file content. If file not found it will create one on given path.
    text_file = open("partner/templates/first_interview.html", "w") # opening my file
    text_file.write(htmly) #putting HTML content in file which i saved in DB
    text_file.close() #file close

    htmly = get_template('first_interview.html')
    html_content = htmly.render(d)  
    msg = EmailMultiAlternatives(subject, text_content, email, [to_email])
    msg.attach_alternative(html_content, "text/html")
    msg.send()

This will send the dynamic HTML template what you have save in Db.

👤Javed

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from django.core.mail import EmailMultiAlternatives

subject, from_email, to = 'hello', 'from@example.com', 'to@example.com'
text_content = 'This is an important message.'
html_content = '<p>This is an <strong>important</strong> message.</p>'
msg = EmailMultiAlternatives(subject, text_content, from_email, [to]
msg.attach_alternative(html_content, "text/html")
msg.send()
👤Hamdi Hassen

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