Question

This question is specific to Zend_Form. Zend_Form adds standard decorators such as <dd> <dt> <dl>. What do I lose if I were to remove them? Are they used by Zend_Form itself for error reporting or any other reason?

Answer 1

They are solely for structuring the output of your Zend Form elements in a definition list. Whether your form renders errors is controlled through the Error Decorator.

See this series of articles by Matthew Weier O’Phinney:

• The simplest Zend Form Decorator
• How to layer Decorators
• Rendering Zend Form Decorators individually
• Creating composite elements

and Rob Allen’s Zend_Form Tutorial:

• http://akrabat.com/tutorial/simple-zend_form-example/