How do i remove the label decorator from a submit button

Question

In my form i have this code;

// Add the submit button
$element = $this->addElement('submit', 'submit', array(
    'ignore'   => true,
    'label' => 'Add new material'
));
$element->removeDecorator('label');

However the form still renders with the label element between the tags.

What am i doing wrong?

Answer 1

I think the argument to removeDecorator is case-sensitive. I.e., it should be "Label" # note the uppercase 'L'.

Noah

Answer 2

The function addElement returns a reference to the current form not to the last added element.

You could try this:

$form = new Zend_Form();
$form->addElement('submit', 'submit', array(
    'ignore'   => true,
    'label'     => 'Add new material'
));

$element = $form->getElement('submit');
$element->removeDecorator('label');

Answer 3

To overcome this nuisance I'm defining manually the decorators for my element...

$details->addElement('text', 'in_year', array(
    'decorators'=>array(
    'ViewHelper',
    array('HtmlTag', array('tag' => 'span')),
    )
));

You can of course define your own tags. In this example I only initialise the "ViewHelper" decorator. If I want to initialise the "Label" decorator I would do:

$details->addElement('text', 'in_year', array(
    'decorators'=>array(
    'ViewHelper',
    'Label',
    array('HtmlTag', array('tag' => 'span')),
    ),
    'attribs' => array('class' => 'required validate-digits')
));

I hope this makes sense... :o)

Answer 4

This worked for me:

$this->addElements(array(  
  new Zend_Form_Element_Submit('submit', array(  
    'label' => 'Save'  
  ))  
));  
$element = $this->getElement('submit');  
$element->removeDecorator('DtDdWrapper');

I did print_r($element); to find out what decorators exist for $element.