SharePoint: List View Styles

The following applies to SharePoint 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016 and SharePoint Online.

Note to 2013 and later users… Selecting any view but "Default" will hide the new command bar at the top of the list/library.

List View Styles

If you have been to one of my classes then you know that “If I had written SharePoint…” is one of my often used phrases. Some of these are “big” items, but most are little things that make using SharePoint just a little nicer.  One of those is how the list of Styles is displayed in the View Edit page. See all of that empty space on the left?  It sure would be nice if they had given us little screen captures of what these styles look like so we don’t to try every one of them to find the one we like. Well… they didn’t. So I went and collected screen captures of each Style.

(Make sure you read or scroll to the end as see what the Preview Pane style does!)

  

Several Lists and Libraries have special Styles

First a note, we are talking about the Standard View here. Calendar views for example do not have optional Styles. Standard Views for calendar lists do have styles. (All Events is a standard view).
Most lists, like Custom Lists and Announcements have these styles:
  
Picture Libraries add Picture Library Details and Document Details and removes the two Boxed styles:
  
Document, Wiki and most other libraries add Document Details and removes the two Boxed styles.
  

Default

This is the default “All Items” view
  

Basic Table

Just adds some lines…
  

Boxed, no labels

Kind of like mailing labels. This could be a problem if you have non-obvious fields.  For example, which of the dates below is the Create date?
  

Boxed

  

Document Details

This one is basically “Boxed” with the addition of file type icons and a properties button.
  

 

Newsletter

This looks just like “Basic Table”. Exactly like “Basic Table” for my Announcements list.
  

Newsletter, no lines

This looks just like “Default”, so maybe the default is “Newsletter, no lines”!
  

Shaded

Anybody remember “green bar” paper?
  

Preview Pane

Now this one is kind of cool! The first screen before is when you first display the view. Down the left side of the view you will find the titles of the Announcements, on the right, a “form” to display the data. Click or mouse-over any one item and you will see that data. This is a great way to show a lot of data in a small amount of space.
  
  
This is really cool when used with a Picture Library! Slide your mouse down across the left hand column of image names and see all of the details on the right. The only other thing I changed below was to add the Thumbnail field to the view.
  

For Developers...

Each view style has an ID number:

0	Basic Table
6	Picture Library Details
7	No name
8	No name
9	No name
12	Boxed, no labels
13	Boxed
14	Document Details
15	Newsletter
16	Newsletter, no lines
17	Shaded
18	Issues Boxed
19	Issues Boxed, no labels
20	Preview Pane

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