User Guide

60 CFML Language Reference

code that is generated for the CFINPUT tag. See the Usage section for more

information about specifying values.

Usage The following custom control tags are available:

• CFINPUT — Creates a form input element (radio button, text box, or checkbox)

and can validate form input.

• CFSELECT — Creates a drop down listbox.

• CFSLIDER — Creates a slider control.

• CFTEXTINPUT — Creates a text input box.

• CFTREE — Creates a tree control.

• CFGRID — Creates a grid control for displaying tabular data in a ColdFusion

form.

• CFAPPLET — Embeds a registered Java applet in a ColdFusion form. Applets are

registered in the ColdFusion Administrator.

You can add standard and dynamic HTML FORM tag attributes and their values to the

CFFORM tag by using the PASSTHROUGH attribute. These attributes and values are

passed directly through ColdFusion to the browser in creating a form.

If you specify a value in quotation marks, you must escape the quotation marks by

doubling them, for example,

PASSTHROUGH= "readonly= " "YES " " "

The ENABLECAB attribute is supported only for MS Internet Explorer clients that have

Authenticode 2.0 installed. Authenticode 2.0 can be downloaded from http://

www.microsoft.com/ie/security/authent2.htm.

Note These CAB files are digitally signed using VeriSign digital IDs to ensure

file security.

Incorporating HTML form tags

CFFORM allows you to incorporate standard HTML in two ways:

• You can add standard FORM tag attributes and their values to the CFFORM tag.

These attributes and values are passed directly through ColdFusion to the

browser in creating a form. For example, you can use FORM tag attributes like

TARGET to enhance your CFFORM features.

• HTML tags that can ordinarily be placed within an HTML FORM tag can also be

placed between <CFFORM> and </CFFORM> tags.

For example, you use a standard HTML INPUT tag to create a submit button in a

CFFORM:

<CFFORM

</CFFORM>