what is page layout in salesforce

Page Layout in Salesforce is a feature that allows customization of the design and organization of detail and edit pages of records in Salesforce. It controls the layout and organization of buttons, fields, s-controls, Visualforce, custom links, and related lists on object record pages. Salesforce page layouts are critical to user experience design, allowing you to organize fields in a logical order, as well as set field properties, add buttons, actions, and related lists. With a page layout, you can control which fields are visible, where blank spaces appear between fields, field properties, page sections, the number of columns in a section and tab-key order, which buttons and actions are included, and which related lists appear, and customize their properties. Page layouts can be tailored to different teams around your organization so each role can access what they need, faster. In Salesforce, the one-page layout can be assigned to multiple profiles.