How Do You Move "help text" on CCK Forms?

Thanks to bangpound, I was able to overwrite where description fields display on form elements in my template.php file as show below. Note for my purposes, descriptions should default to appearing above the input field. However, there are a few instances where it does make sense in my application for the descriptions to appear below, so I have an if statement that catches specific form element ids for which drupal's standard layout should be respected.

Oh, and there's also a bit of code in there that checks field titles to see if they end with a question mark. If so, it replaces the colon delimiter after the field title. (I'm too lazy to take it out for this example. ;) )

function phptemplate_form_element($element, $value) {
  $output  = '<div class="form-item">'."\n";
  $required = !empty($element['#required']) ? '<span class="form-required" title="'. t('This field is required.') .'">*</span>' : '';

  if (!empty($element['#title'])) {
    $title = $element['#title'];
    $delimiter = ":&nbsp;"; // We catch the last character in the title, if it's a "?", we don't use a ":" after the field title.
    if (substr($title, -1) == "?") {
      $delimiter = "&nbsp;";
    }
    if (!empty($element['#id'])) {
      $output .= ' <label for="'. $element['#id'] .'">'. t('!title' . $delimiter . '!required', array('!title' => filter_xss_admin($title), '!required' => $required)) ."</label>\n";
    }
    else {
      $output .= ' <label>'. t('!title' . $delimiter . '!required', array('!title' => filter_xss_admin($title), '!required' => $required)) ."</label>\n";
    }
  }

  /**
   *
   *  Catch element id, if the form element's id is not in the list below, descriptions comes before input field, otherwise descriptions come above input field.
   *
   */
  $specific_id = $element['#id'];
  $caught_ids = "
                gmap-loc1-locpick_longitude0
                edit-field-before-image-upload
                ";
  if (strstr($caught_ids, $specific_id)) { /* if element id is in the list above, put description below input field */
    $output .= " $value\n";
    if (!empty($element['#description'])) {
      $output .= ' <div class="description">'. $element['#description'] ."</div>\n";
    }
  } else { /* Default formatting */
    if (!empty($element['#description'])) {
      $output .= ' <div class="description">'. $element['#description'] ."</div>\n";
    }
    $output .= " $value\n";    
  }
  
  $output .= "</div>\n";
  
  return $output;
}

Sean Larkin
OpenSourcery.com