User Guide

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Attributes
Attribute Req/Opt Default Description
type Optional The MIME content type of the page, optionally followed by a
semicolon and the character encoding. By default, ColdFusion
sends pages as text/html content type in the UTF-8 character
encoding.
The content type determines how the browser or client
interprets the page contents.
The following are some of the content type values you can use:
• text/html
• text/plain
• application/x-shockwave-flash
• application/msword
• image/jpeg
The following list includes commonly used character encoding
values:
• utf-8
• iso-8859-1
• windows-1252
• us-ascii
• shift_jis
• iso-2022-jp
• euc-jp
• euc-kr
• big5
• euc-cn
• utf-16
For example:
type = "text/html"
type = "text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
deleteFile Optional no Applies only if you specify a file with the
file attribute.
• yes: deletes the file on the server after sending its contents to
the client.
• no: leaves the file on the server.
file Optional Name of file whose contents will be the page output. The file
name must start with a drive letter and a colon, or a forward or
backward slash. When using ColdFusion in a distributed
configuration, the
file attribute must refer to a path on the
system on which the web server runs. When you use this
attribute, any other output on the current CFML page is
ignored; only the contents of the file are sent to the client.