Is the display layout the same as the edit layout? [#1115940]

Hi there- sorry to bother you with this small question. I love the arrange fields so far- it works great when editing data. Thanks.

My question is: am I missing something? I can't seem to get the display (when not editing) to layout out the same as the edit view. Specifically, I want to combine the city/state/zip fields on the same line, but since they are fields, they are each being put on their own line, which doesn't look quite as I'd like.

Or, is arrangeFields only meant for arranging fields when editing? (I've included screen shots of edit mode- which works and views fine, and read mode, which doesn't work fine since each field is on its own line.)

Please clarify. Any advice as to what I might be missing is appreciated.

Thanks so much.

Comment	File	Size	Author
	arrangeFieldsView.jpg	190.54 KB	jackokorn
	arrangeFieldsEdit.jpg	144.98 KB	jackokorn

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Comment #1

richardp CreditAttribution: richardp commented 4 April 2011 at 18:54

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Active

» Closed (works as designed)

Yep, it's just for the forms, not the content created by the form.

In all honesty, I'd love to be able to "arrange" the submitted content as well, but the problem is that your users could enter any length of text they want in your fields. So if they were arranged with fixed positions on the page, the text would overlap with each other. And fluid positions (that resize based on the content) would be a small nightmare trying to ensure always ended up looking right.

Unfortunately, with your resulting nodes, you will need to either edit your node-CONTENT_TYPE.tpl.php files or your theme's CSS file(s) by hand to position the node content back into whatever position it needs to be.

Thanks for your interest in the module!
Richard

Comment #2

jackokorn CreditAttribution: jackokorn commented 4 April 2011 at 19:14

Ok. That makes sense.

Thank you so much for the great module and the quick response.

Keep up the great work!

Comment #3

tanay_lakhani CreditAttribution: tanay_lakhani commented 27 June 2011 at 11:05

hey, its a gr8 module for the form display. richards. plz provide the node display module as well. U can provide a designer, a suggestion to tak care of the length of the field. but it would be better if its possible for you to make a module to provide the same display for both. Since many developers are not very well aware with custom css designing.
Thanks

Comment #4

pvanerk CreditAttribution: pvanerk commented 23 June 2015 at 06:22

Issue summary:

View changes

For Drupal 6 you can use the Node Display module to arrange fields on the View tab.
For Drupal 7 you can use the Display Suite to arrange fields on the View tab.

Comment #5

Emmanuel_S CreditAttribution: Emmanuel_S commented 12 September 2018 at 22:44

Hi,
It will be very usefull to explain a bit more clearly from the begining (in the module page) that the fields position move is only effective in the edit mode. I only saw this information in this post, looking everywhere for a bug or any environment issue ...
I saw this "Field positions will not change the node view page for the created content. That information will still be displayed the traditional way (straight down the page).". Please change to "Field positions will not change the node view page for the created content. The target of this module is only for the edit mode".
Thanks