Form Rendering Notes

Notes on Forms and Templates
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• Functions for creating each type of form are found in common.inc. These populate the core html
  tag structure and values (e.g. <input name="$name" value="$value etc)
  EX: form_textfield() line 1307

• These functions use theme_form_element to populate the HTML of the form element chunks, including
  specifying <div class='form_item'/>, <label
  and form element and, including label and <input.../> and post-description
  theme.inc line 541

• this function determines the layout of the form element (including always putting <br> after label!)

• Created form_element.tpl in box_grey_smarty theme folder and modified smarty.engine (adding function smarty_form_element) in order to have
  custom display of form label+element (w/o <br> tag).

To do:

• Figure out input validation model
  x - Figure out how to override call to theme_form_element (to get rid of <br> for example)
• Figure out if/how to move form element definition params into either DB or .tpl