Context
I have a email template which is made using <table> tags in HTML and its a sad job to edit and add messages to send on email. I wanted to change it to a template which does not use <table> however doing so made it really non responsive which is not ideally as emails are viewed on various devices.
Solution
I thought of making a python script which adds your message at a specific place on the HTML fiile.
Python code
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import re
# Read the HTML file
with open("template.html", "r") as file:
html_content = file.read()
# Define the message you want to insert
new_message = "Hello, world!"
# Replace {{ Message }} with the new message (case-insensitive)
modified_html = re.sub(r"{{\s*Message\s*}}", new_message, html_content, flags=re.I)
# Write the modified content to a new file named "message.html"
with open("message.html", "w") as file:
file.write(modified_html)
print("Modified HTML saved to message.html")
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This works by adding your message in the HTML file where {{Message}} is mentioned. This worked great however I wanted a little more, a cherry on the top so I added some lines which allowed it to take Markdown and convert the Markdown to HTML and then insert it in the place of {{Message}} because Markdown>.
Final Code
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import re
import markdown2
# Read the HTML file
with open("template.html", "r") as file:
html_content = file.read()
# Get the user's input for the message in Markdown format
markdown_message = input("Enter the message in Markdown format: ")
# Convert the Markdown message to HTML
html_message = markdown2.markdown(markdown_message)
# Replace {{ Message }} with the HTML message (case-insensitive)
modified_html = re.sub(r"{{\s*Message\s*}}", html_message, html_content, flags=re.I)
# Write the modified content to a new file named "message.html"
with open("message.html", "w") as file:
file.write(modified_html)
print("Modified HTML saved to message.html")
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This worked great which made me think, what if I make a message.md file and use that as the message :0
Final Final Code
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import re
import markdown2
# Read the HTML file
with open("template.html", "r") as file:
html_content = file.read()
# Read the Markdown message from the .md file
with open("message.md", "r") as markdown_file:
markdown_message = markdown_file.read()
# Convert the Markdown message to HTML
html_message = markdown2.markdown(markdown_message)
# Replace {{ Message }} with the HTML message (case-insensitive)
modified_html = re.sub(r"{{\s*Message\s*}}", html_message, html_content, flags=re.I)
# Write the modified content to a new file named "message.html"
with open("message.html", "w") as file:
file.write(modified_html)
print("Modified HTML saved to message.html")
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The code came out great and worked flawlessly. The mentioned code can also be found on Github
that’s it <3