views

Tower Views

Tower has built in support for every template framework.

• HTML5 Bootstrap
• Twitter Bootstrap

Helper Methods

• HTML5 tags
• formFor
• tableFor
• partial
• render
• yields
• contentFor
• hasContentFor

Components

• Forms
• Tables
• Menus and lists
• Breadcrumbs
• Definition lists
• Generic "widgets"

A lot of thought was put into figuring out the conventions behind most of the HTML components we use. Where applicable, you can opt-into ARIA-roles as well. The structures all have sensible defaults, but they can be globally configured no problem.

Tower also includes several "meta-level" helpers, such as:

• Internet explorer hacks to build things like vertically/horizontally centered images (where the width of the image is unknown), and to apply CSS sprites to rich buttons for IE6. You need the structure <div><span><span>[<input/>|<img/>]</div> to do this.
• User agent helpers (to perform human-readable checks on the browser, operating system, etc.).
• HTML "head" helpers (meta tags, titles, keywords, links, etc.).
• Fragment caching helpers, like conditional caching.
• An extension to the building in t() I18n method to allow past/present/future and zero/one/many keys and several more options.