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A Django app useful for inlining CSS (primarily for e-mails)

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Inlining CSS is necessary for email generation and sending but is currently a surprisingly large hassle.

This library aims to make it a breeze in the Django template language.

Usage

Step 1: Dependencies

  • BeautifulSoup
  • cssutils
  • Python 2.7+,3.4+
  • Django 1.11+

Step 2: Install django_inlinecss

Add django_inlinecss to your settings.py:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
        'django.contrib.auth',
        'django.contrib.webdesign',
        'django.contrib.contenttypes',
        '...',
        '...',
        '...',
        'django_inlinecss')

Step 3: Use the templatetag

  1. Place your CSS file somewhere staticfiles can find it
  2. Create your template:
{% load inlinecss %}
{% inlinecss "css/extra-padding.css" %}
    <html>
        <body>
            <div class='lots-o-padding'>
                Something in need of styling.
            </div>
        </body>
    </html>
{% endinlinecss %}

Step 4: Prepare to be Wowed

<html>
    <body>
        <div style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 10px;" class="lots-o-padding">
            Something in need of styling.
        </div>
    </body>
</html>

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Tanner Netterville for his efforts on Pynliner.

Thanks to Thomas Yip for his unit tests on the soupselect module. These tests helped on getting the core CSS2 selectors to work.

License

MIT license. See LICENSE.md for more detail.

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