I'm trying to craft some nice email templates for my site, but I'm having a conflict between my desire for well-crafted code and functionality.
My problem is that all of my email templates are formatted like standard templates:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet"...>
</head>
<body>
Some stuff
</body>
</html>
which displays just fine as a webpage, but in trying to send this as a formatted email, it's essentially just sending the Some stuff section, which means none of the formatting really makes it across.
My current emailing code looks like this:
message = Message(
subject="Subject",
html= render_template(
'emails/confirmation_email.html',
confirmation_code=confirmation.confirmation_code
),
sender = ("sender", "sender@gmail.com")
)
I'm using Jinja2 templates and the Flask-Mail extension.
Basically, I really want to include these stylesheets in my email, but I really object to including everything in a style tag.