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title: "Understanding view modes"
date: "2017-11-12T15:07:58+00:00"
summary: "Explore Drupal's view modes to customize content display. Learn about full and teaser views, create new modes, and understand their impact on your site's layout and user experience."
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For each content entity type there are multiple View modes. A View mode is a specific view of the content. For example, you can view an Article in **Full** or as a **Teaser**. The Full view mode is typically used when the content is displayed on its own page. The Teaser view mode is a short format that is typically used in lists of multiple content items. 

Drupal provides a number of different View modes and you can create additional ones if you require. View modes are created and managed under Structure > Display modes > **View modes.**

Types of view mode
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There are two types of View mode, each with specific options:

### Full content view mode 

Used to display the content in full on its own page.

*   You can only have one Full view mode per type of content. For example, there's only one Full article view mode.
*   You can have multiple templates for the Full view mode.

### **All other types**

Used to display a different (non full) view of the content.

*   You can have as many other types of View mode as you like.
*   You can only have one template for each "non full" View mode