Styling Member Registration form problem

Hello, I am confused by the (unless I'm an idiot) differences in the way the tableless modes in member registration module and the form tpls are set up. I'm using 2.7~ for my examples, but I have checked 2.8 and it seems to be the same.

To style a tableless custom form, its as simple as wrapping the outputs in divs in the same way it works with the table mode.

Tableless mode:form_widget.tpl

Quote:

<div class="<?php echo $this->rowClass; ?>">
<div class="col_0 col_first"><?php echo $this->generateLabel(); ?> </div>
<div class="col_1 col_last"><?php echo $this->generateWithError(); ?></div>
</div>

This does not seem to be possible with member_default.tpl

Quote:

<form action="<?php echo $this->action; ?>" method="post" enctype="<?php echo $this->enctype; ?>">
<div class="formbody">
<input type="hidden" name="FORM_SUBMIT" value="<?php echo $this->formId; ?>" />
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" summary="">
<?php echo $this->fields; ?>
<tr class="<?php echo $this->rowLast; ?> row_last">
<td class="col_0 col_first"> </td>
<td class="col_1 col_last"><div class="submit_container"><input type="submit" class="submit" value="<?php echo $this->slabel; ?>" /></div></td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
</form>

Where are these fields taken from and less importantly, how come submit_container is visible to style but not the others?

The form is obviously styled normally in table mode, but I have been unable to do anything more than wrap that member_default <?php echo $this->fields; ?> output in a single div.

Could someone please show me how to individually wrap the label and the form field please, as it is with form_widget.tpl

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In case you're wondering why I didnt use a custom form, or why I don't just use the tables, I had done so and it was styled exactly as needed, but I ran into an issue with groupselection from xtmembers and labels respectively.

That thread is here: viewtopic.php?f=25&t=878