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Mastering Drupal 8 Views

By : Gregg Marshall
Book Image

Mastering Drupal 8 Views

By: Gregg Marshall

Overview of this book

Learn how to build complex displays of content—all without programming. Views were used on more than 80% of all Drupal 7 sites; now they are part of the Drupal 8 core. While most site builders and site owners are aware of views, they don't understand how to take full advantage of their power to create many amazing pages and blocks. If they use views, they might build 10 different view displays with different filters, without knowing that a contextual filter would require only a single display. Using our sample company, we'll take its existing content and evolve an ever more complex and powerful website for that company, starting with adapting the administration the user sees and moving on to making complex pages of information for site visitors. While the book is written for Drupal 8, the similarities between Views in Drupal 7 and 8 make this a useful reference for Drupal 7 site builders also.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Mastering Drupal 8 Views
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Changing generated HTML and CSS from the Views UI


Once again, Jim went into teaching mode using a copy of the development site on his computer to demonstrate what he was describing.

Structure of a View's output

Taking out a pad of paper, Jim drew a box and labeled it View. Then, he drew two smaller boxes inside and labeled them Row. Finally, inside each of the smaller boxes, he drew even smaller boxes and labeled them Field. The resulting picture looked similar to the following:

The Views structure diagram

"If you think of the results of a view as being the view in its entirety, which might include headers or footers, then you have a number of rows, and each of these rows has a number of fields. Each of these levels can have CSS classes attached to them to make generating customized theming easier. Alternatively, a lot of our developers just use the many divs and their associated classes, even though they might not be as semantic sounding as "front-page-row" or "featured-title". However, let...