Creating a custom view style in Sharepoint 2013?

Question

We're currently building a sharepoint 2013 site but the need to create a custom view style has now become apparent. When viewing documents, the following features would be ideal:

• The ability to specify conditional colour values based off dropdown values.
• The ability to add additional styles to a list view - table padding etc.
• The ability to show additional content to a list view - table headings etc.

As a short term solution we've enabled a thumbnail image to be chosen when a document is added, but this is less than ideal - especially for the client.

We can't seem to find any documentation on how to create a custom view style anywhere so your knowledge would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

P.S I should note that:

• We only have access to Sharepoint Designer 2013 and not 2010.
• We cannot use any external JS libaries.

Answer 1

I think there are no poor or stupid questions. But styling in SharePoint is a wide area. The prefered way for styling and customizing is JSLink, here is a basic tutorial that might help: http://www.martinhatch.com/2013/08/jslink-and-display-templates-part-1.html