The heart of the idea is simple, create contact form without having to use PHP or lot of HTML code to form everything.
I've read now on CF7 website, he never intended to control the looks but left it controllable by CSS.
This is blessing and curse, as if he had, would have removed flexibility, however, CSS requires two ends and lot more learning..
It doesn't change the language, fact, it itself is another language and functions on the concept of CF7 in two ways 1 ) form for building and 2 ) click text and you can edit the language directly.
It's far more powerful, CF7 + Smart Grid than if Contact Form 7 had incorporated these features to begin with, as CF7 is simple and requires learning curve.
Learning CF7 and realizing you want plugin to format out page, makes Smart Grid valuable add-in and still much faster than trying to format with CSS..
I found Smart Grid after creating simple but very long contact form for client and his insisting that it was too long and needed formatting to shorten it up.
After the few hours spent learning how this thing works, I save hours of time playing with CSS and plan on using it again and again. cons If you have contact forms that exist in website, they will collapse do to CSS with this plugin.
That is fixed with or as I had intended, replacing the in the grid system.
Read Div tags, you will be amazed at the simplicity of his formatting and labels. pss someone wrote, dependence on another plugin as con.
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