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:

Structure of a View's output

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, ...

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