Index: lib/pear/HTML/QuickForm/Renderer/Tableless.php
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RCS file: /home/cvs_repositories/globalcvs/ou-moodle/lib/pear/HTML/QuickForm/Renderer/Tableless.php,v
retrieving revision 1.1
diff -u -r1.1 Tableless.php
--- lib/pear/HTML/QuickForm/Renderer/Tableless.php	9 Oct 2006 09:54:40 -0000	1.1
+++ lib/pear/HTML/QuickForm/Renderer/Tableless.php	23 Jul 2008 12:38:46 -0000
@@ -220,6 +220,17 @@
     {
         $this->_fieldsetsOpen = 0;
         parent::startForm($form);
+
+        // add a required note, if one is needed
+        if (!empty($form->_required) && !$form->_freezeAll) {
+            $requiredNote = $form->getRequiredNote();
+            // replace default required note by DOM/XHTML optimized note
+            if ($requiredNote == '<span style="font-size:80%; color:#ff0000;">*</span><span style="font-size:80%;"> denotes required field</span>') {
+                $requiredNote = '<span class="required">*</span> denotes required field';
+            }
+            $this->_html .= str_replace('{requiredNote}', $requiredNote, $this->_requiredNoteTemplate);
+        }
+
     } // end func startForm
 
    /**