Question

I have a form buildForm() function that looks like this:

public function buildForm(FormBuilder $builder, array $options)
{   
    $builder->add('interestingSports', 'entity', array(
        'multiple' => true,
        'expanded' => true,
        'property' => 'name',
        'class'    => 'Foo\MyBundle\Entity\Sport',
    )); 
}

This works fine, except the form just plops out a bunch of checkboxes with no <li>s or anything around them, and I want <li>s.

Does Symfony have a way for me to put each checkbox in an <li>?

Answer 1

The best and easiest way to display your checkboxes surrounded by <li> tags is to customize your form rendering by displaying fields individually,

{# Any other form field #}
{{ form_widget(form.otherField) }}
{{ form_widget(form.otherField) }}
{# ... #}
{# Your checkboxes surrounded by <li> tags #}
{% for field in form.interestingSports %}
   <li>
     {{ form_label(field) }}
     {{ form_widget(field) }}
   </li>
{% endfor %}
{# Render all fields that have not yet been rendered #}
{{ form_rest(form) }}