Is there a way to add a wrapper div around a silverstripe form field

Question

Is there a way to add a wrapper around a labelfield or any other kind of form field in silverstripe forms? It would be easier to style forms this way.

FieldList::create(
    LabelField::create('label','Label'),
    EmailField::create('Email',''),
    TextareaField::create('Comment','')
)

Answer 1

Yes, according to the docs you can set a template either per form or per field, see docs.

$field = TextField::create(..);
$field->setTemplate('MyCustomTextField');

You need to set the whole path to your template if it's located in a subfolder of your themes /templates/ directory.

If you need to change the templates globally you can overwrite them in your theme. LabelField's template is located in templates/SilverStripe/Forms/LabelField.ss.

1. Put a file with the same path in your theme (e.g. themes/mytheme/templates/SilverStripe/Forms/LabelField.ss),

2. flush your Silverstripe cache (e.g. by running flush by adding ?flush to the URL) so Silverstripe can find the new template file,

3. and start experimenting with your custom markup.

A flush is only needed when you add a new template file, updates of your existing files will be detected automatically.