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Hi folks,

I'm trying to apply a custom theme (supplied to me by the client's designer) to some of the forms in CiviCRM, and finding that in a lot of places the HTML isn't customizable -- i.e. the values passed to the Smarty templates are already HTML.

For instance, I need to wrap each contribution amount radio button and its label together in a div, but all the radio buttons and labels arrive at the template already in a single string of HTML, divided by <br> tags instead.

From what I can tell, this stuff is generated deep in the bowels of CiviCRM in the QuickForm code.  Am I missing something?  Is there somewhere else where I could intercept the rendering?

Thanks!

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EDIT: yes, it looks like some of the HTML I need to change is in QuickForm, and the rest is in the core CiviCRM code (e.g. CRM_Contribute_Form_Contribution_Main::buildAmount).  Is there any way to customize this stuff without creating an absolute maintenance nightmare?

No, I don't want to hack QuickForm, definitely.

What about classes like CRM_Contribute_Form_Contribution_Main?  If I were to subclass them, what would it take to get CiviCRM to call the subclasses?

That way one could override a couple of functions and adjust the HTML they construct and not have to worry about maintaining a complete personal fork of the core.

Thanks again!

Thanks.  I'm concerned, though, that 2.2 won't be stable enough for a production site when we launch in 2 weeks -- given that it just hit alpha.  Is that a valid concern?

Hm.  What I need to replace is actually just a little bit of the code it passes to QuickForm -- for instance on line 352 / line 376 of CRM/Contribute/Form/Contribution/Main.php:

$this->addGroup( $elements, 'amount', $title, '<br />' );
If I can replace that with something like:

$this->addGroup( $elements, 'amount', $title, '</div><div class="myclass">' );
it will go a long way towards being able to implement what I need WRT theming.  Is that something this hook would support?

Thanks!

In 3.0, one can work around this with the following template code (adjusting the markup as you desire):

{foreach from=$form.amount item=option key=k}
{if $k|is_integer || $k == "amount_other_radio"}
<li>
{$option.html}
{if $k == "amount_other_radio"}
{$form.amount_other.html|crmMoney}
{/if}
</li>
{/if}
{/foreach}