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title: "Use a rule to select a page design for a page"
slug: "use-a-rule-to-select-a-page-design-for-a-page"
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# Use a rule to select a page design for a page

To keep the layout of your site content consistent, you can use [page designs](https://doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/developers/sxa/105/sitecore-experience-accelerator/page-designs.html "Page designs"). You can select a page design on a page level, and you can map the template of a page to a page design. Sometimes this is too time-consuming. For example, for a site that contains a catalog with multiple different product types that all need a slightly different page design. In this case, you can apply a rule with conditions and actions that determine the page design.

To create a rule to set the page design:

1. Navigate to *sitecore/Content/<site collection>/<site>/Presentation/Page Designs*, on the **Content** tab, in the **Designing** section, in the **Design Rules** field, click **Edit Rule**.
2. In the **Create rule** dialog box, in the **Choose conditions** section, create the conditions. By default, you can set conditions for **Fields**, **Item Hierarchy**, **Item Information**, and **Item Version**.

    For example, if you want to assign a page design to all pages that do not have a title, click **Fields**, and click **where the specific field is empty**. Click **specific field** and enter **Title** and click **Ok**.

    ![SXA-page-design-create-rules.PNG](https://doc.sitecore.com/api/markdown-image/xp/en/developers/sxa/105/sitecore-experience-accelerator/images/SXA-page-design-create-rules.PNG)

3. In the **Choose actions** section, click the **select specific page design** action.
4. In the **Edit rule** section, click **specified**, select the page design, and click **OK**.

    You can add more rules and use the arrows to change the order.

    ![SXA-page-design-rules-arrows.png](https://doc.sitecore.com/api/markdown-image/xp/en/developers/sxa/105/sitecore-experience-accelerator/images/SXA-page-design-rules-arrows.png)

If you have multiple page design options set, the order of precedence, from highest to lowest is:

- **Page design selected on a page level** - assign page designs to specific pages. This might be convenient for a page that you normally do not use very often, such as, for example, a release notes page.

    ![SXA-page-design-page-level.PNG](https://doc.sitecore.com/api/markdown-image/xp/en/developers/sxa/105/sitecore-experience-accelerator/images/SXA-page-design-page-level.PNG)

- **Rules defined for site** - set conditions and actions to select the page design.

    ![SXA-page-design-rules.PNG](https://doc.sitecore.com/api/markdown-image/xp/en/developers/sxa/105/sitecore-experience-accelerator/images/SXA-page-design-rules.PNG)

- **Page Design to Template Mapping** - map content types to your page layouts. For web pages that you use often, such as landing pages, product pages, and navigation pages, you can keep them consistent by [assigning a page design to the template](https://doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/developers/sxa/105/sitecore-experience-accelerator/create-and-assign-a-page-design-in-the-content-editor.html "Create and assign a page design in the Content Editor") for that page.

    ![SXA-page-design-blog.png](https://doc.sitecore.com/api/markdown-image/xp/en/developers/sxa/105/sitecore-experience-accelerator/images/SXA-page-design-blog.png)

This means that if, for example, you want the rules that you create to determine the page design, you must not select a page design on a page level.