You know. Your right. My problem was that I was inspecting the text with firebug. And firebug was making the output look as if it hadn't been escaped. But viewing the source confirmed that it had indeed been escaped.
I got what I wanted. Thanks. Damien >it is escaping them. the fact that you see them in the browser means >they've been escaped. view the source and you'll see. > >if you have this: <cfset myString = "<hello>foo" /> and you do a ><cfoutput>#myString#</cfoutput>, all you'll see is "foo", because the braces >around "hello" were not escaped and the browser will try to render a <hello> >tag (which it doesn't know, so it ignores it). If you wrap the string in an >HTMLEditFormat(), it will escape the < and >, and you'll see <hello> in the >browser, but viewing source will show <hello> > > > >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:311664 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
