Zend Form Decorators add classes

Question

I'm new to Zend, and beginner in php. I have a form generating several Elements. I have already add Decorators to have each of them in a div :

$element->addFilter('StringTrim')->addDecorators(array('clearfix'=>new Zend_Form_Decorator_HtmlTag(array('tag'=>'div','class'=>'clearfix'))));

My generated html looks like that :

    <div class="clearfix">
        <dt id="email-label"><label for="email" class="optional">Email</label></dt>
        <dd id="email-element">
        <input type="text" name="email" id="email" value="" class="text" maxlength="100">    
        </dd> 
    </div>

I want to add a class to the dd tag to have that :

    <div class="clearfix">
        <dt id="email-label"><label for="email" class="optional">Email</label></dt>
        <dd class="clearfix" id="email-element">
        <input type="text" name="email" id="email" value="" class="text" maxlength="100">    
        </dd> 
    </div>

EDIT :

/* ###################################  email                ################################### */
    $email          = new Zend_Form_Element_Text('email');
    $email          ->setLabel("Email");
    $email          ->setAttrib('class','text');
 // $email          ->setRequired(true);
    $email          ->addValidator('EmailAddress');
    $email          ->setFilters(array('StringTrim', 'StringToLower'));
    $email          ->addFilter('StringTrim')->addDecorators(array('clearfix'=>new Zend_Form_Decorator_HtmlTag(array('tag'=>'div','class'=>'clearfix'))));
    $email          ->addValidator('StringLength', false, array(0, 100));
    $email          ->setAttrib('maxlength', '100');
    $this           ->addElement($email);

Someone have an idea ? Thanks!

Answer 1

try this:

$element = new Zend_Form_Element_Text('email'); 
$element->addDecorators(array(array('HtmlTag',array('tag' => 'dd', 'class' => 'yourclass' )));

Answer 2

Try this

$deco_html_tag = $element->getDecorator('HtmlTag');
$deco_html_tag->setOption('class', 'clearfix');

Answer 3

Here's another way without using the decorators.

You can add this in your form class.

$this->setElementDecorators(array(
       'ViewHelper'
));

And render your form like this in your view.

<form class="your-class" id="<?php echo $this->form->getAttrib('id'); ?>" name="<?php echo $this->form->getAttrib('name'); ?>" action="<?php echo $this->escape($this->form->getAction()); ?>" method="<?php echo $this->escape($this->form->getMethod()); ?>">

<div class="something"> 
     <?php echo $this->form->getElement('element')->getLabel();  ?>
</div>
<div class="something"> 
     <?php echo $this->form->getElement('element');  ?>
</div>
</form?