Add markup before form output for user-login

Question

I've created a template override for the user login form (user-login.tpl.php) and want to put some content before the form's elements (e.g, header text and copy). Anything you add in user-login.tpl.php become children elements of <form>. I want my supporting content outside the form structure.

Is there a template suggestion to get higher up in the processing chain or is this only possible using a specific preprocess hook in template.php or a module? Any examples would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks - Jeremy

Answer 1

Unless someone has a more elegant solution, I used:

$form['#prefix'] = '<h1>Header</h1>';

What seems odd here is the potential for a lot of markup in your code. I'm relatively new to Drupal, so I'm not sure if this is common practice.