crap! I hijacked the other thread again... I guess what I am looking for is a way to use another module to hook into profile.modules rendering of fields. So that I can change a particular field (textarea) using form_alter to change it to a group and add my markup field to that group. This way they can continue to use profile.module and I don't have to hardcode each instance. But I cannot see how to do this from the Form API docs. Carl Mc Dade <carl_mcdade@yahoo.com> wrote: Hmm, After reading my own post I saw that I left out a critical point. The original fields are being created with profile.module. I have brought up the subject of changing this but for now I wanted to know if Forms API can hook into the dynamic creation of form fields handled by the profile.module Sorry about that. The previous post was badly formulated. I also thought of using straight markup to create a custom textarea with the HTML added but profile.module does not have this ability. Is anyone working on this type of functionality? - Carl Adrian Rossouw <adrian@bryght.com> wrote: take a look at how the filter forms work. There's help text in the node_example.module about it too. Essentially you need to create a grouping array, move the original element into it , and then put your new field into that. This is all perfectly possible with form_alter On 8/10/06, Carl Mc Dade <carl_mcdade@yahoo.com> wrote: I am adding a markup field to a Profile form but only want the field to show after a certain textarea. The idea is to use the links in the markup field to enter text in the textarea above it. I have set in the working code and have no problem with it but am questioning the fact that hardcoding this in seems to be the only way. Is there a way of doing this using the FormsAPI? a grouping syntax? Something like show this field only if a related field is present? Is there a hook for FormsAPI that would help? TIA Carl Mc Dade ____________________________ Web Developer for Hire http://www.heroforhire.net info@heroforhire.net --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and 30+ countries) for 2¢/min or less. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Next-gen email? Have it all with the all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta. Carl Mc Dade ____________________________ Web Developer Dataföreningen i Sverige AB www.d4d.se www.dfs.se --------------------------------- Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. Great rates starting at 1¢/min.