Zend Framework: How to remove the decorators on a Zend Form Hidden Element

If you want to change the elements of your form you have to reset the Decorators of your Form and it's elements.

Example of enclosing a field in a p-tag

class Default_Form_Contact extends Zend_Form 
{
    public function init()
    {
        $name = new Zend_Form_Element_Text('name');
        $name->setLabel('Name:')
             ->setDecorators(
                array(
                  array('ViewHelper', array('helper' => 'formText')),
                  'Errors',
                  array('Description', array('tag' => 'p', 'class' => 'description')),
                  array('HtmlTag', array('tag' => 'p', 'id'  => 'name-element')),
                  array('Label', array('class' => 'label')),
                )
              ); 
        $this->addElement($name);
    }    
}

Which decorators you really need you have to consider yourself. For the form decorators you can do in the init()

$this->setDecorators(array(some decorators));

To change the way a form element is rendered, you can use the decorators, which can be modified with

// Overwrite existing decorators with this single one:
$element->setDecorators(array('Composite'));

For a list of all the default decorators, you look at standard decorators; for a list of the decorators used by the form fields, you can see standard form elements.

It seems to me that the hidden form elements is added from Zend with a precise purpose, and removing it (if that is even possible) could cause some problems. My first thought is that Zend uses that hidden form to check if the value has been changed, or to verify if the from has been really generated from Zend (this hypothesis seems less plausible).