Theming Views 2 Removing or Insert html tags {SOLVED}

ok, i'm having a little hard time trying to accomplished what i wanted to have :)

in the code bellow...

  <div class="block block-views" id="block-views-story_1-block_1">
    <div class="content">
      <div class="view view-story-1 view-id-story_1 view-display-id-block_1 view-dom-id-1">
        <div class="view-content">
          <div class="views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first views-row-last"> <a alt="Floods kill 2 French citizens, 8 others" title="Floods kill 2 French citizens, 8 others" href="/613/network/floods-kill-2-french-citizens-8-others">
            <h1 class="art-title">Floods kill 2 French citizens, 8 others</h1>
            </a> </div>
        </div>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>

need to output something like...

<h1 class="art-title"> <a alt="Floods kill 2 French citizens, 8 others" title="Floods kill 2 French citizens, 8 others" href="/613/network/floods-kill-2-french-citizens-8-others">Floods kill 2 French citizens, 8 others</a> </h1>

and among other fields...

what are the tweaking needed to be done? i don't get much understand what the devel.module is giving me :)

please help...

I just like to share how I remove some unnecessary or extra html tags of “Views 2” output. The idea here might not good enough (base on my understanding), but it basically achieved what I wanted. For newbie’s like me, it may be nice to read first this section (http://drupal.org/node/352970).

Note: I theme the general output of views for testing

Basically, I wanted to output a block (generated by views) that will display title, teaser, link (to actual node), and comment link (for user/ site visitor post some comment).

So the fields are (I just skip some setup of my views block)

Node: Title
Node: Teaser
Node: Link
Comment: Node link

The default Views output, the code would look something like…

<div class="view view-story-1 view-id-story_1 view-display-id-block_1 view-dom-id-1">
  <div class="view-content">
    <div class="views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first views-row-last">
      <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a alt="City playing waiting game on cases before Ombudsman" title="City playing waiting game on cases before Ombudsman" href="/613/davao/city-playing-waiting-game-cases-ombudsman">City playing waiting game on cases before Ombudsman</a></span> </div>
      <div class="views-field-teaser">
        <div class="field-content">
          <p>DAVAO City is now playing a "waiting game" regarding the cases filed against the city before the Office of the Ombudsman, acting city administrator Melchor Quitain said Monday.</p>
        </div>
      </div>
      <div class="views-field-view-node"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/613/davao/city-playing-waiting-game-cases-ombudsman">Full story</a></span> </div>
      <div class="views-field-node-link"> <span class="field-content">
        <ul class="links inline">
          <li class="comment_add first last"><a title="Share your thoughts and opinions related to this posting." href="/613/comment/reply/11#comment-form">Add new comment</a></li>
        </ul>
        </span> </div>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

What I did, is copied templates views-view.tpl, views-view-unformatted.tpl, and views-view-fields.tpl from “sites/all/modules/views/theme” and paste into my “theme” folder (under subfolder views). From there I modified those templates.

views-view.tpl
===========
<?php if ($admin_links): ?>
   <div class="views-admin-links views-hide">
   <?php print $admin_links; ?>
   </div>
<?php endif; ?>

<?php if ($exposed): ?>
	<div class="view-filters">
	<?php print $exposed; ?>
	</div>
<?php endif; ?>

<?php if ($rows): ?>
	<?php print $rows; ?>
<?php elseif ($empty): ?>
	<div class="view-empty">
      <?php print $empty; ?>
   </div>
<?php endif; ?>


views-view-unformatted.tpl
=====================
<?php if (!empty($title)): ?>
	<h3><?php echo $title; ?></h3>
<?php endif; ?>

<?php foreach ($rows as $id => $row): ?>
	<?php echo $row; ?>
<?php endforeach; ?>


views-view-fields.tpl
================
<?php if (!empty($title)): ?>
	<h3><?php echo $title; ?></h3>
<?php endif; ?>

<?php foreach ($rows as $id => $row): ?>
	<?php echo $row; ?>
<?php endforeach; ?>

and the resulting html codes...

<h1 class="art-title"><a alt="City playing waiting game on cases before Ombudsman" title="City playing waiting game on cases before Ombudsman" href="/613/davao/city-playing-waiting-game-cases-ombudsman">City playing waiting game on cases before Ombudsman</a></h1>
  <p>DAVAO City is now playing a "waiting game" regarding the cases filed against the city before the Office of the Ombudsman, acting city administrator Melchor Quitain said Monday.</p>
  <ul>
    <li><a href="/613/davao/city-playing-waiting-game-cases-ombudsman">Full story</a></li>
    <li><a title="Share your thoughts and opinions related to this posting." href="/613/comment/reply/11#comment-form">Add new comment</a> </li>
  </ul>

i think its clean enough, right!!? :)

i hope this gives an idea for newbie's like me who are struggling understanding drupal.

many thanks for those who shared ideas... :)

vsotto