At the moment it is not possible to put the input text field of an Zend_Form_Element_Captcha besides the captcha image with css for example.

The generated code looks like this:

The render() method looks like this at the moment:

public function render(Zend_View_Interface $view = null, $element = null)
{
    return '
';
}

So there is always a
in it which makes it hard to change the appearance with css.

The
should not be hardcoded and the output should be more flexible, so a developer can put the textfield right beside the Image.

At the moment I changed that behaviour by extending Zend_Captcha_Image and changing the render() method.