Customizing the form display of a node

New in Drupal 8 is the availability of form display modes. Form modes allow a site administrator to configure different field configurations for each content entity bundle edit form. In the case of nodes, you have the ability to rearrange and alter the display of fields and properties on the node edit form.

In this recipe we'll modify the default form for creating the Article content type that comes with the standard installation profile.

Customizing the form display of a node

How to do it…

  1. To customize the form display mode, visit Structure and then Content Types.
  2. We will modify the Article content type's form. Click on the expand the operations drop ...

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