hook_element_info

Allows modules to declare their own Forms API element types and specify their default values.

This hook allows modules to declare their own form element types and to specify their default values. The values returned by this hook will be merged with the elements returned by hook_form() implementations and so can return defaults for any Form APIs keys in addition to those explicitly mentioned below.

Each of the form element types defined by this hook is assumed to have a matching theme function, e.g. theme_elementtype(), which should be registered with hook_theme() as normal.

For more information about custom element types see the explanation at http://drupal.org/node/169815.

Return value

An associative array describing the element types being defined. The array contains a sub-array for each element type, with the machine-readable type name as the key. Each sub-array has a number of possible attributes:

• "#input": boolean indicating whether or not this element carries a value (even if it's hidden).
• "#process": array of callback functions taking $element, $form_state, and $complete_form.
• "#after_build": array of callback functions taking $element and $form_state.
• "#validate": array of callback functions taking $form and $form_state.
• "#element_validate": array of callback functions taking $element and $form_state.
• "#pre_render": array of callback functions taking $element and $form_state.
• "#post_render": array of callback functions taking $element and $form_state.
• "#submit": array of callback functions taking $form and $form_state.
• "#title_display": optional string indicating if and how #title should be displayed, see theme_form_element() and theme_form_element_label().

See also

hook_element_info_alter()

system_element_info()

Related topics

Hooks

Allow modules to interact with the Drupal core.

6 functions implement hook_element_info()

1 invocation of hook_element_info()

File

modules/system/system.api.php, line 643

Hooks provided by Drupal core and the System module.

Code

function hook_element_info() {
  $types['filter_format'] = array(
    '#input' => TRUE,
  );
  return $types;
}