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cygro (Cyrill Gross) — 2009-04-14T08:07:21

Hey guys

I found a simple but effective workaround to dynamically add the disabled attribute to a tag:

Add an additional (useless) attribute to the cfinput tag and include the disabled attribute using an iif( ... ) statement "inside" the value-quotes:

The generated HTML-Code looks like this:

ColdFusion recognizes the characters inside the DE(...) as a string, but after processing by the server it appears as attributes.

Note: You need the doble quotes inside the first DE(...) of the iif( ... ) statement, otherwise you won't get correct HTML.

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carehart — 2007-04-04T19:54:38

Folks using ObBlur for client-side validation should note that, as the name implies, it only validates when you leave the field. Conversely, this also means that the field is *not* validated if you never put the cursor into the field.

Why is this an issue? Imagine if you used OnBlur for a "required" field, because you liked that the error message appears as soon as they leave the field. That's all well and good, but if they never enter the field, and you don't use obSubmit as well, then the field is not validated and your form processing page may suffer an error as a result if it expects a value to be entered.

In other words, for a required field, you would NOT want to use *only* OnBlur but would want to use "OnBlur,OnSubmit" (and/or optionally OnServer).

The onBlur ensures that the user sees a message as soon as the leave the field. The OnSubmit ensures the user sees a message whether they put the cursor into/onto the field or not.

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RichardDavies — 2007-02-05T15:31:40

Like SillyWorm said, the disabled attribute doesn't work as documented or expected (at least for HTML forms). disabled="false" will still create a disabled input because 'disabled="false"' is added as an attribute to the input tag and as far as browsers are concerned, /any/ value of a disabled attribute means disabled.

So the only way to have the input tag not be disabled is to not include the attribute at all. As currently implemented in cfinput, this makes it really difficult to dynamically decide if an input should be disabled based on a boolean variable. Instead of

you have to do

It would be helpful in this situation if disabled="false" /didn't/ pass the disabled attribute to the HTML input.

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BlueSpline — 2006-11-12T23:02:38

If the type is 'file' then 'required' always throws the 'message' whether a file has been selected or not.

Mike

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BlueSpline — 2006-10-22T01:21:49

If you want to specify multiple validation types there must be no spaces in the list. For example validate="numeric,range" not validate="numeric, range".

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KLH — 2006-10-05T13:59:53

cfinput's validateat onBlur doesn't seem to work. onBlur script is written calling js functions to return true/false, but I don't see the functions written in the head tags like the onSubmit does.

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icedfusion — 2006-07-07T06:09:43

CFINPUT indicates the 'checked' parameter is compatible with all cfinput types. It does not seem to work for Flash forms however. We tried checked = "false" and checked = "no", and neither work.

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Adam Cameron — 2006-06-03T12:17:24

On an HTML form, compare how this renders:

To how it SHOULD render:

(ie: the » should be rendered, not escaped).

--
Adam

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Coach Bob — 2006-05-15T06:26:32

Clarification: That should be CFIDE/scripts/cfform.js

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Coach Bob — 2006-05-12T10:48:43

validate="time" relies n the the function _CF_checktime() in the CFMX 7 file CFIDE/cfform.js. It has a regular expression error.

The existing regular expression will not allow a time entry beginning with "20" (e.g., 20:15:00).

The code currently reads:
var result = _CF_checkregex(object_value, /^(([0-1]?[0-9]|[2][1-4]):([0-5]?[0-9])(:[0-5]?[0-9])?).?([AP]M|[AP]m|[ap]m|[ap]M)?$/, required);

It should start out:
/^(([0-1]?[0-9]|[2][0-4]):...

You can easily modify this on your own server. It's line 492 of the cfform.js file. It has been sent to bugs@adobe.com.

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Xuan Mai — 2006-03-13T11:18:52

It would be nice to list the reserved words that can't be used in flash form names.

Ex:
The value of the attribute NAME, which is currently "add", can not be one of the following reserved words: ADD, AND, BREAK, CONTINUE, DELETE, DO, ELSE, EQ, FOR, FUNCTION, IF, IN, NEW, ON, ONCLIPEVENT, RETURN, THIS, TYPEOF, VAR, VOID, WHILE, WITH, ABSTRACT, BOOLEAN, BYTE, CASE, CATCH, CHAR, CLASS, CONST, DEBUGGER, DEFAULT, DOUBLE, ENUM, EXPORT, EXTENDS, FINAL, FINALLY, FLOAT, GOTO, IMPLEMENTS, IMPORT, INSTANCEOF, INT, INTERFACE, LONG, NATIVE, PACKAGE, PRIVATE, PROTECTED, PUBLIC, SHORT, STATIC, SUPER, SWITCH, SYNCHRONIZED, THROWS, TRANSIENT, TRY, VOLATILE.

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doug777 — 2006-01-05T18:19:05

With cfgrid and cfformgroup type="tabnavigator" :-
If both bind and value are used in cfinput type="text", value does not populate field initially.
Does work with type="datefield", haven't tried others.

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cf.Objective — 2005-12-29T17:29:09

The behavior mentioned in the previous comment seems to be because no pointer to the field is created in _root. All the other field types create _root.{fieldname} except hidden, which creates nothing.

Consequently, the value of hidden fields cannot be used as containers for other fields in Flash Forms. For now, I'm using type="text" visible="false" height="0" width="0" instead.

Also, the data structures created when populating a multi-select (slush) via a returned query object from flash remoting are different than those created when populating a slush with a query. Consequently, using remoting to modify the contents of a slush, then submitting the result doesn't work.

Laterz!

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sillyworm — 2005-12-17T11:43:24

BUG - The documentation states that CFINPUT tags support the "disabled" attribute with both a "yes" value to disabel and a "no" value to leave it enabled. However, this is not true. Setting it to either true or false will disable the CFINPUT tag in HTML

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cf.Objective — 2005-11-22T15:14:13

cf_addict: I'd suggest that this isn't a "bug" at all. It's expected behavior that requires knowing the flashform object's APIs. Knowing the properties makes life a lot easier, eh?

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cf_addict — 2005-09-29T08:47:31

Here is the fix to the datefield onChange bug. Use selectedDate.

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cf_addict — 2005-09-28T12:42:43

This code will demonstrate the bug with the datefield's onchange attributes.
Run it and you will notice that each time it will alert and show the previous value.

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rebster — 2005-08-31T13:37:24

here is what I found. This one will wrap the text.

hth

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seancoyne — 2005-07-08T09:30:56

There is an attribute that is not documented here. labelplacement="left | right" will place the label.

I have tested with a type="checkbox" but im sure it will work with radio buttons also, and perhaps the other types.

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zerium — 2005-06-03T06:04:10

If you want to do multiple buttons you can do them this way:

on submit just check the value of "TheFormAction" (write a cfswitch)

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FEW — 2005-05-30T12:54:18

To have multiple submit buttons that do different things on the same
page is possible. Your problem is that you gave both buttons the same
name. This is illegal in flash. Check out my blog at:

http://movies.engr.utk.edu:16080/weblog/fweber/

to see how to do this.

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ASandstrom — 2005-04-26T13:19:01

In response to BaileyBurger:
No, you cannot have multiple checkboxes in a formgroup with the same name.

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BaileyBurger — 2005-04-25T13:50:00

Seems like you can not have multiple checkboxes with the same name within a group.

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CFDEBUG — 2005-03-18T10:52:52

I found the answer in the forum.

bind="{(field1.text*field2.text)+Number(field3.text)}"

But this doesn't look like an expected behaviour since all other operators work without Number().

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CFDEBUG — 2005-03-16T11:17:09

Question about bind attribute. It says "lets you populate form fields from contents of other form fields". So if I try

bind = "{field1.text*field2.text}" , it works. But

bind = "{field1.text+field2.text}" doesn't work. It appends both values instead of summing up. All the other general operators work except for + operator. Why?

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Iceborer — 2005-02-21T10:19:36

To get a radio button without a text label, you MUST specify label="". If you simply omit the 'label' attribute, the 'value' attribute of the tag will be used to display a test label instead.

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halL — 2005-02-17T09:14:46

Re JDEVpres comment:

Thanks for pointing this out.

The validate="SubmitOnce" attribute should be valid for cfinput type="image", but is not allowed.
We've submitted a bug (No. 59841) against this behavior.

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JDEVpres — 2005-02-15T23:18:34

Attribute validation error for tag CFINPUT.
The value of the attribute VALIDATE is invalid. SubmitOnce validation type is only valid when type='submit'.

This conflicts with the above statement:
"Used only with submit and image types; prevents the user from submitting the same form multiple times before until the next page loads (for example, submitting an order a second time before getting the first order confirmation). Valid in HTML and XML format only; ignored in Flash format."