Question

I’m currently styling form elements with a custom CSS class to style text inputs differently, as in:

$submit = new Zend_Form_Element_Submit('login'); $submit->setLabel('Log in')     ->setAttrib('class', 'submit'); 

And

$username = new Zend_Form_Element_Text('username'); $username->setLabel('Username')     ->setAttrib('class', 'textinput'); 

But let’s say I have multiple forms, and want to style all text elements with textinput and all submit elements with submit by default. Is there anyway to do this globally?

Answer 1

I’m no Zend expert, but I guess you could subclass each Zend_Form_Element_* class and setting the attributes you want to set in their constructors – i.e subclass Zend_Form_Element_Text in Zend_Form_Element_Text_Yatta; then setting attribute ‘class’ to ‘textinput’ in its constructor.