About Form Layouts That Use a Grid

A grid layout template does not use placeholder tags. It uses the following Siebel tags in a single location for all controls that reside in the main body of the form:

<div od-type=form-applet-layout></!--od section form-applet-layout close–>

A grid layout template includes the following items:

Body. The following tag defines the body. It contains no placeholder tags:
```
<div od-type=form-applet-layout>
```
Header or footer. You must not use placeholder tags for items such as buttons in a header or footer. You cannot use the Web Layout Editor to modify the layout of a header or footer.

An applet Web template that uses a grid is different from an applet Web template that does not use a grid in the following ways:

To modify a form layout, you can use a grid template in the Web Layout Editor in Siebel Tools without modifying the web template that the form references.
Labels and controls in a grid template are separate items in the Web Layout Editor. You can place them independently in the applet layout. However, a label and the control that it references are actually a single object in the repository with one set of shared properties.
A grid template does not compress empty space in a column. The browser compresses horizontal space as much as possible without modifying the size of any field on the form applet.

For examples of grid layout templates, see Grid Layout Form Template and Popup Form, Grid Layout Template.