Writing custom email templates
Writing HTML as a string in Python can get really messy. We can write the body contents, such as '<b>Hello World</b>'
, as a .html
template file instead. That will allow us to organize multiple email templates into the /templates/emails/
directory of the chapter_7
app. Programming work can also be shared among developers in this way. Email templates can also be used for plain text-formatted emails, placing only the text without any HTML code inside of that .html
file. While that may not sound appealing for plain text emails, this does have its benefits when working among a large team of developers. Let's begin with the simplest template using only plain text emails.
Django provides the get_template()
method, found in the django.template.loader
library. This method will be used for all the email template examples in the following subsections.
For plain text emails
Follow these steps to create a template for a plain text...