Plan how items look in lists #

The same article looks right as a card on the home page and as a line in the sidebar.

Life cycle: Plan, example 8 of 35. Worked out on the Fit & Healthy site of Exponential 6.0.15+.

Contents #

1. In the Layouts editor
2. With templates
3. Which to choose
4. Check

In the Layouts editor #

1. On the Design tab of a list, Item view type offers Standard, Standard (with intro), Overlay, Card, Card (with intro), Line, Mini, List item and List item (with intro).

With templates #

1. Each item view is a template under content/views/ of the media design (standard, overlay, card, line, mini, listitem ...); a new look per class is content/views/<view>/<class>.tpl in your extension.

Which to choose #

Choose from the existing views first; add a view in the template way only when none fits.

Check #

• Every list in the plan has its item view type.

Related pages #

• How a block maps to its templates
• Plan examples, every page
• Free documentation: this page is free to copy, translate and improve under the GNU FDL 1.3.