Render a single element in a form

In your form templates, Elements are rendered in the sub template default_group.php


Is an array of element objects, keyed on the element name.
By default the default_group.php sub template loops over the element's and renders them all out.

Often in a custom template we want to get a specific element, so if I wanted to access the element named 'age' I could do:


Each element is an object with a series of properties:

• plugin - the element's plugin e.g. 'field'
• id - Unique reference, e.g. 'tablename___name'
• element - the HTML field e.g. <input .... />
• label_raw - the label as plain text
• label - the label text wrapped in its <label/> tag
• value - the value assigned to the element
• error - any error message generated from a fail Validation
• column (fabrik 3.0 only) css used to build group columns

To output the element's value we can write this PHP: