Zend Framework: How do I remove the decorators on a Zend Form Hidden Element?

Question

I\'m trying to remove the default decorators on a hidden form element. By default, the hidden element is displayed like this:

Hidden Element Label          


        

Answer 1

When you have a lot of hidden inputs best answer is the following:

$elements = $this->getElements();
foreach ($elements as $elem)
    if ($elem instanceof Zend_Form_Element_Hidden)
        $elem->removeDecorator('label')->removeDecorator('HtmlTag');

Answer 2

Using only a single "ViewHelper" decorator will generate invalid markup if you're still using the <dl> wrapper. Another approach is outlined in ZF-2718. This adds hidden fields to a subform that is wrapped in a <dd>.

Answer 3

From the Zend Element Decorators documentation:

Default Decorators Do Not Need to Be Loaded

By default, the default decorators are loaded during object initialization. You can disable this by passing the 'disableLoadDefaultDecorators' option to the constructor:

$element = new Zend_Form_Element('foo', 
    array('disableLoadDefaultDecorators' => true)
);

Answer 4

I use this

$element->removeDecorator('DtDdWrapper');

to get rid of the dt dd tags around specific elements

Answer 5

I couldn't get disableLoadDefaultDecorators to work quite right. Here's a solution I came up with.

$hiddenIdField = new Zend_Form_Element_Hidden('id');
$hiddenIdField->setValue($portalId)
              ->removeDecorator('label')
              ->removeDecorator('HtmlTag'); 

In the HTML, the hidden field appears without any extra tags around it.

...
<dt><label for="password" class="required">Password</label></dt>
<dd><input type="password" name="password" id="password" value="" /></dd>
<input type="hidden" name="id" value="1" id="id" />
...