react-native/docs/Basics-Component-View.md
Kevin Lacker e3f96acf26 Make a new "Style" doc that's in The Basics and uses the RNWP
Summary:
The example uses StyleSheet.create and also arrays-of-styles. I think this covers everything the old one did, but in simple-enough-for-the-basics form, so I removed the old one. I also reordered so that "Style -> Dimensions -> Layout" is the flow for learning "Styley" things.
Closes https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/8379

Differential Revision: D3478384

Pulled By: caabernathy

fbshipit-source-id: 158f0f0367c8eb8b2b24feda0d8d7a533fd7af4d
2016-06-23 14:43:35 -07:00

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---
id: basics-component-view
title: View
layout: docs
category: The Basics
permalink: docs/basics-component-view.html
next: style
---
A [`View`](/react-native/docs/view.html#content) is the most basic building block for a React Native application. The `View` is an abstraction on top of the target platform's native equivalent, such as iOS's `UIView`.
> A `View` is analogous to using a `<div>` HTML tag for building websites.
It is recommended that you wrap your components in a `View` to style and control layout.
The example below creates a `View` that aligns the `string` `Hello` in the top center of the device, something which could not be done with a `Text` component alone (i.e., a `Text` component without a `View` would place the `string` in a fixed location in the upper corner):
```ReactNativeWebPlayer
import React, { Component } from 'react';
import { AppRegistry, Text, View } from 'react-native';
class ViewBasics extends Component {
render() {
return (
<View style={{marginTop: 22, alignItems: 'center'}}>
<Text>Hello!</Text>
</View>
);
}
}
// App registration and rendering
AppRegistry.registerComponent('AwesomeProject', () => ViewBasics);
```