What 'unformatted' in Views Style should have been

Submitted by admin on Thu, 05/11/2009 - 15:14

Semantic View Module in a Nutshell from Adaptivethemes on Vimeo.

One of the things i find very annoying and somewhat misleading when using Views 2 Style called 'unformatted' is that it still assumes that you mean giving you a prefined set of CSS classes along with the Views output.

I've always argued to many friends and work colleagues that 'unformatted' should mean just providing the raw Views variables for us to use so we can theme it up ourselves by applying our own HTML markup or CSS instead of letting Views provide the required pre-defined CSS classes. It's the same when using HTML list.

Of course, this could have been done using Views theming but going thru this process is cumbersome and a bit elaborate especially when you only want to markup a title to be a HTML heading

Hopefully, these days are now behind us as you can see from the video above. Using a module called Semantic Views we can now apply our own markup or CSS. It also means that our output of the Views to the web browser is now looking much cleaner and less bloated with un-needed CSS classes.

I am hoping this module will get into Views and replace the core Row Style 'unformatted'.