Remove colons from Drupal form fields/labels

Question

How can I remove the : from appearing after every label in forms made with the Drupal Form API?

Answer 1

Create your own implementation of theme_form_element(). The offending semicolon is in $t('!title: !required', ...), and would need to be removed in both locations.

Not the easiest thing to change, but at least it's possible without hacking core!

Answer 2

The way I've just done it is to add a <span class="colon"><span> around the colon in field.tpl.php. Then I can hide it with display:none; if I don't want it.

It avoids putting a lot of logic into a tpl.php if you have multiple fields which either need or don't need colons.

It also allows you to change fields colon requirements on different pages. For example I often don't want them on displaying a node but would like them in editing.

Answer 3

copy the field.tpl.php to your current theme folder and remove colon. Clear cache and check. I think It will solve the problem.

Answer 4

You can try this also, works for me in drupal 7.

Drop this in the body of your version of 'page.tpl.php' in your template folder.

<?php
    drupal_add_js(
      'jQuery(document).ready(function () {
        var labels = jQuery(".field-label");
        jQuery.each(labels, function() {
          this.innerHTML = this.innerHTML.replace(":", "");
        });
      });',
      'inline');
  ?>