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orchardcore-admin-edit-views

Skill for writing Orchard Core admin editor views with the ocat CSS classes. Covers Edit views for content parts and fields, field editor variants, part and field settings editors, site settings editors, workflow activity and deployment step Fields.Edit views, and full admin edit pages, plus the ocat-wrapper, ocat-label, ocat-label-required, ocat-end, ocat-end-offset, ocat-start, ocat-limited-wrapper and ocat-limited classes and their layout rules, content-part-wrapper and field-wrapper classes, asp-validation-class-for and validation messages, hints and the Hint_Admin shape, editor tabs, cards and columns, and horizontal admin form layouts. Use this skill when requests mention Orchard Core admin edit views, admin forms, Edit.cshtml, Fields.Edit.cshtml, Settings.Edit.cshtml, ocat classes, replacing mb-3 or form-group in admin views, or field hints. Strong matches include TheAdmin, ocat-wrapper, Hint_Admin, ContentPartDisplayDriver, ContentTypePartDefinitionDisplayDriver, SiteDisplayDriver.

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# Orchard Core Admin Edit Views

Every admin view that edits something (a content part or field, a settings group, a workflow activity, a deployment step, or a module's own entity) lays out its rows with the static `ocat-` (Orchard Core Admin Theme) CSS classes. TheAdmin styles them as a stacked Bootstrap form; a custom admin theme can restyle every editor (for example as a horizontal form) by overriding the classes, without touching any view.

- Use `ocat-*` only in admin views. **Never** in front-end views (Login, Register, ForgotPassword, or anything rendered by the site theme).
- Do not use Bootstrap-only row markup (`mb-3`, `form-group`, `form-label`) for admin field rows, and do not use the `@Orchard.GetWrapperClasses()`-style helpers (removed in Orchard Core 3.0).
- Admin pages that list items are not edit views; they render `<admin-list>` (see `orchardcore-admin-lists`).

## Which Views This Covers

| Editor | Produced by | View file |
|---|---|---|
| Content part editor | `ContentPartDisplayDriver<TPart>.Edit` with `GetEditorShapeType(context)` | `Views/{Part}.Edit.cshtml` |
| Content field editor | `ContentFieldDisplayDriver<TField>.Edit` with `GetEditorShapeType(context)` | `Views/{Field}.Edit.cshtml` |