User Guide

152 Chapter 2: ColdFusion Tags
• Deprecated the passthrough attribute. The tag now supports all HTML form tag attributes
directly.
• Added the method attribute and support for the GET method.
• Added support for Flash and XML output, including the format, height, width, preloader,
timeout, wMode, accessible, and skin attributes.
• Added cfformgroup, cfformitem, and cftextarea child tags.
ColdFusion MX
:
• Deprecated the enableCAB attribute. It might not work, and might cause an error, in later
releases.
• Changed the name and action attributes to optional.
• Changed integer validation to require an integer value. In previous releases it would convert a
floating point value to an integer.
Attributes
The following table lists attributes that ColdFusion uses directly. For HTML format forms, this
tag also supports the standard HTML
form tag attributes that are not on this list, and passes them
directly to the browser. ColdFusion also includes all supported HTML attributes in the XML.
Attribute Applies
to
Req/
Opt
Default Description
name HTML,
Flash,
XML
Opt CFForm_n A name for the form.
In HTML format, if you omit this attribute and specify
an
id attribute, ColdFusion does not include a name
attribute in the HTML sent to the browser; this
behavior lets you use the cfform tag to create
XHTML-compliant forms. If you omit the
name
attribute and the
id attribute, ColdFusion generates
a name of the form CFForm_n where n is a number
that assigned serially to the forms on a page.
action HTML,
Flash,
XML
Opt See
Description
Name of ColdFusion page to execute when the form
is submitted for processing.
If you omit this attribute, the form posts to the page
identified by the CGI.SCRIPT_NAME variable, the
requested page that resulted in displaying the form.
method HTML,
Flash,
XML
Opt post The method the browser uses to send the form data
to the server:
• post: sends the data using the HTTP post method,
This method sends the data in a separate message
to the server.
• get: sends the data using the HTTP get method,
which puts the form field contents in the URL
query string.