[Fixed]-Html content is not sent in email

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[UPDATE]: In order for the below to work you must have set then appropriate email settings inside your settings.py file, like this:

# settings.py

#######################
#   EMAIL SETTINGS    #
#######################
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'email_username_here'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'email_password_here'

The <a> link is not rendered because there is no loader to render it (unknown {% url %} template tag). If you like to preserve this syntax ({% url ... %}) and have a separate HTML file that will be sent then store the HTML file as separate file, say html_email.html and then use render_to_string and do the following:

<!-- html_email.html -->

<a href="http://localhost:8000/{% url 'invitations:refer-invitation' invite_code %}">Click Here</a>


# views.py

from django.template.loader import render_to_string

if created:
    # above code as is
    # in the context you can pass other context variables that will be available inside the html_email.html
    context = {'invite_code': new_join_old.invite_code,}
    html_message = render_to_string('path/to/html_email.html', context=context)
    # below code as is

or you can do it this way:

#views.py

from django.core.mail import EmailMultiAlternatives
from django.urls import reverse

if created:
    # above code as is
    html_message = '<a href="http://localhost:8000{}">Click Here</a>'.format(reverse('invitations:refer-invitation', kwrags={'invite_code': invite_code}))
    msg = EmailMultiAlternatives(subject, message, from_email, to_email, fail_silently=True)
    msg.attach_alternative(html_message, 'text/html')
    msg.send()
👤nik_m

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from django.template import Context, Template

email_data = open('email_templates/email.html', 'r').read()
html_data = Template(email_data)
html_content = html_data.render(Context({'invite_code': new_join_old.invite_code}))

You can add message,subject etc key-value pair in context as well

In email.html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

<head>
</head>
<body>
    <a href="http://localhost:8000/invitations/refer-invitation/{{ invite_code }}">Click Here</a>
</body>
</html>

You can access the value of context variable like message and subject in email.html using {{ message }} and {{ subject }}

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/topics/email/#the-emailmessage-class

👤Ajay Singh

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