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cfformitem

Description

Inserts a horizontal line, a vertical line, a spacer, or text in a Flash form. Used in the cfform or cfformgroup tag body for Flash and XML forms. Ignored in HTML forms.

Category

Forms tags

Syntax

<cfformitem 
   type = "hrule" or "vrule" or "spacer"
   style = "style specification"
   width = "pixels"
   height = "pixels"
   visible = "yes" or "no"/>

or

<cfformitem 
   type = "html" or "text" or "script"
   style = "style specification"
   width = "pixels"
   height = "pixels"
   visible = "yes" or "no"
   enabled = "yes" or "no"
   tooltip = "Tip text"
   bind = "bind expression">
...text
</cfformitem>

See also

cfapplet, cfform, cfformgroup, cfgrid, cfinput, cfselect, cfslider, cftextarea, cftree, Adding text, images, rules, and space with the cfformitem tag in Adding text, images, rules, and space with the cfformitem tag in ColdFusion MX Developer's Guide

History

ColdFusion MX 7 Updater: Added the "script" value for type attribute.

ColdFusion MX 7: Added tag

Attributes

The following table lists the attributes and their behavior in Flash forms. For XML format, if not otherwise noted, the attribute is passed to the XML but is not interpreted by the basic XSL style sheet provided with ColdFusion MX.

Note: Attributes that are marked as Flash only are not handled by the skins provided with ColdFusion MX. They are, however, included in the generated XML in all controls except text and html types.

Attribute Req/Opt; Formats Default Description

type

Required;

Flash and XML

 

Flash:

  • html: place the text in the body of this tag on the form. For Flash forms, you can use the following text formatting tags, most of which correspond to HTML tags, in the text: a, b, br, font, i, img, li, p, textformat, and u. For details on using these formatting tags, see the Flash documentation. The style attribute has no effect on the format of the text in type.
  • text: place the text in the body of this tag on the form verbatim, without interpreting any markup. You can control the overall appearance of the text by using the style attribute.
  • spacer: places an invisible spacer of the specified height and width on the form. Used to place space between form controls. This tag must not have any children.
  • hrule: places a horizontal rule on the form. This tag must not have any children.
  • vrule: places a vertical rule on the form. This tag must not have any children.
  • script: lets you create functions in Flash forms, which reduces the possibility of reaching the 64K limit.

XML:

  • html: puts the CFML tag's body text in a CDATA section in an XML xf:output element.
  • text: XML-formats (escapes characters such as <) the CFML tag's body text and puts it in a CDATA section in an XML xf:output element.
  • hrule: puts an hr tag in the output. Use the style attribute to specify all rule characteristics, including height and width. This tag must not have any children.
  • Any other string: generates an XML xf:group element with the type name as the appearance attribute. The CFML tag body is put in a CDATA section in a cf:attribute name="body" element. The XSL transforms provided with ColdFusion MX ignore these elements.

style

Optional;

Flash and XML

 

Flash:

Must be a style specification in CSS format.

Ignored if the type attribute is html.

For detailed information on specifying Flash styles, see Creating Forms in Macromedia Flash in ColdFusion MX Developer's Guide. Not used with the spacer type.

XML:

ColdFusion passes the style attribute to the XML. ColdFusion skins include the style attribute in the generated HTML.

width

Optional;

Flash

 

Width of the item, in pixels. If you omit this attribute, Flash automatically sizes the width. In ColdFusion XSL skins, use the style attribute, instead.

height

Optional;

Flash

 

Height of the item, in pixels. If you omit this attribute, Flash automatically sizes the width. In ColdFusion XSL skins, use the style attribute, instead.

enabled

Optional;

Flash

Yes

Boolean value specifying whether the control is enabled. Disabled text appear in light gray. Has no effect on spacers and rules.

visible

Optional;

Flash

Yes

Boolean value specifying whether to show the control. Space that would be occupied by an invisible control is blank. Has no effect on spacers.

tooltip

Optional;

Flash

 

Text to display when the mouse pointer hovers over the control. Has no effect on spacers.

bind

Optional;

Flash

 

A Flash bind expression that populates the field with information from other form fields. If you use this attribute, ColdFusion MX ignores any text that you specify in the body of the cftextitem tag. This attribute can be useful if the cfformitem tag is in a cfformgroup type="repeater" tag. See Usage. For details, see Flash form data binding in the cfinput tag description.

Note: Attributes that are marked as Flash only are not handled by the skins provided with ColdFusion MX. They are, however, included in the generated XML in all controls except text and html types.

Usage

This tag requires an end tag or a slash before the closing end character of the opening tag, as the following example shows:

<cfformitem type="hrule" />

For more information on using this tag in Flash forms, see Creating Forms in Macromedia Flash in ColdFusion MX Developer's Guide.

Example

The following example shows a simple Flash form using horizontal rules and text:

<h3>cfformitem Example</h3>
<cfform name="myform" height="450" width="500" format="Flash" >
   <cfformitem type="hrule" />
   <cfformitem type="text">
      This simple form has two hrule cfformitem tags around the cfformitem tag
      that contains this text.
   </cfformitem>
   <cfformitem type="hrule" />
</cfform>

For a more complex form, see cfformgroup.

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Comments


yummy-rutabaga said on Mar 1, 2005 at 8:31 AM :
The documentation contradicts itself.

The 'type' attribute states that the 'style' attribute can be used to format text if 'type' == text while the 'style' attribute states that it has no effect if 'type' is text or html.

Hmm, which is it? Is the 'style' attribute ignored when 'type' is text or no?
Michael said on Mar 18, 2005 at 6:41 AM :
The description for the height attribute currently states "...sizes the width". This should be changed to "...sizes the height."
halL said on May 2, 2005 at 1:35 PM :
In response to Yummy-rutabaga:

You are right that the documentation is self-contradictory. I checked with one of the CF engineers and got this response:

Styles apply to text, but only some of them do to HTML. Font and text styles do not affect the HTML text, but most or all styles that work with the whole block, like margins, do apply.
ASandstrom said on Jun 30, 2005 at 12:03 PM :
In the table of attrbutes, the description of the style attributes states "Ignored if the type attribute is html or text." The phrase "or text" should be deleted.
The following code illustrates using a style in a cfformitem of type text:
<cfform name="myform" height="450" width="500" format="Flash">
<cfformitem type="text" style="color: red;">
This text is in the Flash form.
</cfformitem>
</cfform>
Lone Jet said on Sep 22, 2005 at 2:17 PM :
A CFInput text field with the name of TITLE causes output to go haywire as it conflicts with TITLE in the XSL file.

 

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