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Asked: 2026-05-14T22:01:18+00:00

I want to send HTML-emails, using Django templates like this: <html> <body> hello <strong>{{username}}</strong>

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I want to send HTML-emails, using Django templates like this:

<html>
<body>
hello <strong>{{username}}</strong>
your account activated.
<img src="mysite.com/logo.gif" />
</body>

I can’t find anything about send_mail, and django-mailer only sends HTML templates, without dynamic data.

How do I use Django’s template engine to generate e-mails?

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  1. Editorial Team

    From the docs, to send HTML e-mail you want to use alternative content-types, like this:

    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()

    You’ll probably want two templates for your e-mail – a plain text one that looks something like this, stored in your templates directory under email.txt:

    Hello {{ username }} - your account is activated.

    and an HTMLy one, stored under email.html:

    Hello <strong>{{ username }}</strong> - your account is activated.

    You can then send an e-mail using both those templates by making use of get_template, like this:

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

plaintext = get_template('email.txt')
htmly     = get_template('email.html')

d = Context({ 'username': username })

subject, from_email, to = 'hello', 'from@example.com', 'to@example.com'
text_content = plaintext.render(d)
html_content = htmly.render(d)
msg = EmailMultiAlternatives(subject, text_content, from_email, [to])
msg.attach_alternative(html_content, "text/html")
msg.send()
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