How to add static html markup to a CiviCRM form

Question

I have CiviCRM 4.4.6 + Drupal 7 and i alter one of CiviCRM's forms.

Inside hook_civicrm_buildForm(), i try to:

form->addElement('html', 'statichtml', '<div>aa</div>');
$template =& CRM_Core_Smarty::singleton();
$bhfe = $template->get_template_vars('beginHookFormElements');
if (!$bhfe) {
  $bhfe = array();
}
$bhfe[] = 'statichtml';
$form->assign('beginHookFormElements', $bhfe);

If i use it with 'text' element type, it works correctly. This way nothing is rendered, but an empty additional tr is added. How to use this type of element correctly?

Answer 1

http://pear.php.net/manual/hu/package.html.html-quickform.intro-elements.php Here is the explanation. The element type should be static, not html and the above code starts to work.