Page Layout

Overview

Page layout is a critical component of the look and feel of a page. Layout allows you to divide a page up into to sections and to place components within those sections. There is one critical component to understand in order to understand layout, the container. A container represents a rectangular section of a page that contains other components, even other containers.

When you think of a document structure, often times you think about the rows or columns in the structure. In davinci page, each row or column is a container. For example, if you think of a page with two columns, each column becomes a container. Typically, each column is also contained within a top level container as in the following:

Methods of Layout

There are essentially two ways to create a page layout.

• Layout Components: are standard components that act as containers for other components and are used to structure a layout.
• HTML Layout: are layouts that are created by providing standard HTML code.

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