DIY is a different kind of View layout: the purpose is to allow designers and developers the most flexibility.
The goals of the layout are to:
With GravityView’s default List and Table layouts, you can create amazing designs using just your Gravity Forms entry data. But the List layout is opinionated: we created a layout that would work well for most needs, not all needs. DIY Layout is the layout for the rest of your needs. You will want DIY Layout if you:
DIY Layout adds three new settings for fields in GravityView: Before Output, Container Tags, and After Output.
- Reduce the amount of PHP programming needed
- Configure your View outside of the Custom Content field
- Maintain the visual nature of GravityView field layouts
- Add tons of flexibility to layouts
- Make it easy to wrap fields in different HTML tags
- Customize using CSS as much as you want, without more code than is necessary
- Provide developers & designers a template with less opinionated markup
With GravityView’s default List and Table layouts, you can create amazing designs using just your Gravity Forms entry data. But the List layout is opinionated: we created a layout that would work well for most needs, not all needs. DIY Layout is the layout for the rest of your needs. You will want DIY Layout if you:
- Want more flexibility than the List layout
- Find yourself using Custom Content fields a lot
- Modify field content with filters or actions
- Have ever overridden GravityView field templates
- Want to modify the HTML tag that wraps field content
DIY Layout adds three new settings for fields in GravityView: Before Output, Container Tags, and After Output.
- Before Output:Â Add HTML, shortcodes, and Merge Tags that will appear before the field content, but inside the Container Tag.
- Container Tag: Choose which HTML tag wraps the field
- After Output: Same as Before Output, but this appears after the field content