Sending HTML email
Posted: April 12th, 2010 | Author: Davo | Filed under: Django | Tags: EmailMultiAlternatives, sendhtmlemail | 7 Comments »It is possible to send a HTML email using the EmailMultiAlternatives
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 = 'Order Confirmation', 'admin@yourdomain.com', 'someone@somewhere.com'
html_content = render_to_string('the_template.html', {'varname':'value'}) # ...
text_content = strip_tags(html_content) # this strips the html, so people will have the text as well.
# 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()
