APEX

Hello, how do I get rid of the empty column that is created in a tabular form wherever there is an input of the type hidden. If I select Show = no, then it's not included at all in the form, I need a few of these hidden inputs and it's screwing up my layout big time.
I'm creating the tabular form manually from a collection

select...
...
apex_item.hidden(16, c016,'id="my_hidden_input_'||ROWNUM||'"') my_hidden_input
from apex_collections
where collection_name = 'MY_COLLECTION'

If I go into report attributes, click on this hidden column, and select tabular form element -> display as hidden, then I get (in the source code of the page) weird stuff like this:

<input type="hidden" name="f01" value="&lt;input type=&quot;hidden&quot; name=&quot;f16&quot; value=&quot;5/6kukkuu&quot; id=&quot;my_hidden_input__1&quot; /&gt;"  id="f01_0001" />