{"id":42532,"date":"2025-02-06T08:10:36","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T13:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/docs.gravityforms.com\/?p=42532"},"modified":"2025-02-06T08:10:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T13:10:37","slug":"theme-layers-view-classes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/docs.gravityforms.com\/theme-layers-view-classes\/","title":{"rendered":"Theme Layers View Classes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-introduction\">Introduction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>View classes are essential for modifying the markup within Gravity Forms. They require a specific structure to ensure proper handling of markup elements. To implement a View class, developers must extend the base Gravity_Forms\\Gravity_Forms\\Theme_Layers\\API\\View and define the get_markup() method.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-usage\">Usage<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The <code>get_markup()<\/code> method needs to return a string representing the final markup to be rendered. 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