For anyone in the future who happends to be looking for something similar.
Here is what I ended up doing.. $elementCaptcha->setDecorators(array( array('decorator' => array('td' => 'HtmlTag'), 'options' => array('tag' => 'td')), array('Label', array('tag' => 'td')) )); Wraps <td>'s arround the label and the image/textbox of the captcha item. Then I extended the Zend_Form_Element_Captcha to replace the render function so that the return is wrapped in a <tr>. Like so, class myCaptcha extends Zend_Form_Element_Captcha { public function render(Zend_View_Interface $view = null) { $captcha = $this->getCaptcha(); $captcha->setName($this->getFullyQualifiedName()); $decorators = $this->getDecorators(); $decorator = $captcha->getDecorator(); if (!empty($decorator)) { array_unshift($decorators, $decorator); } $decorator = array('Captcha', array('captcha' => $captcha)); array_unshift($decorators, $decorator); $this->setDecorators($decorators); $this->setValue($this->getCaptcha()->generate()); return '<tr>'.parent::render($view).'</tr>'; } } It's the same render function as the existing one in Zend_Form_Element_Captcha but with the <tr>'s added on the return. Terre -----Original Message----- From: Terre Porter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 7:29 PM To: fw-general@lists.zend.com Subject: [fw-general] help setDecorators for Zend_Form_Element_Captcha I'm trying to create a captcha form element in a table row. I have this for a text element. // set <tr><td> wrapper around element $email->setDecorators(array( 'ViewHelper', 'Description', 'Errors', array(array('data'=>'HtmlTag'), array('tag' => 'td')), array('Label', array('tag' => 'td')), array(array('row'=>'HtmlTag'),array('tag'=>'tr')) )); It creates this : <tr> <td><label for="email" class="required">E-Mail</label></td> <td><input type="text" name="email" id="email" value="" maxlength="125"></td> </tr> However, the same setDecorators statement on Zend_Form_Element_Captcha doesn't work. Anyone know the correct syntax to make something like this : <tr> <td><label for="captcha" class="required">Enter Code:</label></td> <td><img src="/images/captcha/1d97a252be45739b5f6c83583b02f4d8.png"/><br/><input type="hidden" name="captcha[id]" value="1d97a252be45739b5f6c83583b02f4d8" helper="formText" id="captcha-id"><input type="text" name="captcha[input]" id="captcha-input" value="" helper="formText"></td> </tr> Thanks Terre