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Only themes can override templates and renderers. You can't do it in other plugin types.

To override a specific template, you put your copy of just that template in your theme's templates folder (under the appropriate subdirectory as described in the documentation).

what exactly do you mean by "display mform elements in the frame of a new plugin"?

If you don't want to change the whole element but some styles you can use the "styles.css" in your plugin folder.
If you want to display the elements in a different way as it is by default, for example you want to show your elements in separate div containers of your page, you could use the html-elements in your mform.
That means you could start a div container, add an input and close the div container.

Example:

$mform->addElement('html', '<div class="xyz">');
$mform->addElement('text', .....);
$mform->addElement('html', '</div>');

Maybe that helps a bit.

Best regards
Andreas

You have several options here:

• Modify templates in the theme you are currently using.
• Create a custom theme and place your templates there. You would ship the plugin and custom theme.
• Rewrite generated HTML of form before displaying it.

In the the classic Moodle page you usually have something like this:

$form = new tform($PAGE->url);

echo $OUTPUT->header();

$form->display();

echo $OUTPUT->footer();

In your case you could do something like this:

$form = new tform($PAGE->url);

// HTML of the form.
$rendered = $form->render();

// Do something with the string.
$rewrite = str_replace('foo', 'faa', $rendered);

echo $OUTPUT->header();

echo $rewrite;

echo $OUTPUT->footer();