# Dashboard

> A page of cards that shows and controls the home. Users can have as many dashboards as they like.

Source: https://contributors.home-assistant.io/glossary/dashboard/

- In code: `lovelace`, `hui-`
- Also: dashboards
- Formerly: Lovelace, Lovelace UI (old name: don't use it in new text)

A dashboard has one or more [views](https://contributors.home-assistant.io/glossary/view/), and each view holds [cards](https://contributors.home-assistant.io/glossary/card/). Home Assistant can build a dashboard by itself, with a [strategy](https://contributors.home-assistant.io/glossary/strategy/).

Dashboards used to be called Lovelace, after their code name, until Home Assistant 2022.4. The code still uses it, like the `lovelace` panel and the `hui-` prefix of dashboard elements. In text, say dashboard.

## Related terms

- [View](https://contributors.home-assistant.io/glossary/view/): One page of a dashboard. Its type, like sections, masonry, or panel, decides how its cards are laid out.
- [Card](https://contributors.home-assistant.io/glossary/card/): A block on a dashboard that shows or controls something, like an entity, a graph, or a weather forecast.
- [Strategy](https://contributors.home-assistant.io/glossary/strategy/): Code that builds a dashboard or a view from the home itself, its areas, devices, and entities, instead of a fixed configuration.
- [Panel](https://contributors.home-assistant.io/glossary/panel/): A page of its own in Home Assistant, usually in the sidebar, like a dashboard, the map, or the settings.