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I'm looking to customize/tweak the appearance of a Contribution Form. For example, I'd like to output the donation amounts and their "names" in columns so they align nicely, one column of amounts and one column of labels.

I've read "Customize+Built-in+and+Profile+Screens" and found the corresponding template (Contribute/Form/Contribution/Main.tpl, iirc); it outputs $form.amount.html. How do I reach in deeper to affect the HTML that's generated?

Is it common for people who want substantial layout tweaking to save out a static copy of the form HTML and hack that? I'd rather not go there yet. 

Thanks!

(Drupal 5.7/CiviCRM 2.0.1)

The "amount" radio button group is created in CRM/Contribute/Form/Contribution/Main.php - builtAmount() function. It is created as a "group" - and Quickform allows you to specify delimiter characters between each element (e.g. each radio button item) - this is currently set as <br />. You'll have to play with the code to see if / how you could do the table layout instead...