ah ok so your doing it from JS. In which case just have a counter that increments every time you click the button and add that counter to your tabID, then it will be unique.
Russ On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Randy Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Russ, > > Yes, I could have anywhere from 1 to n years (3 in this example) and from 0 > to n of the Form 130 within each of those years. > > I'll take a look at using the CreateUUID approach but I'm not sure that it's > not going to leave me in the same situation. Wouldn't CF would create the > UUID when the form first loaded and then it would be unique only at that > point? I need it to generate a new unique ID with every click of the "Add > 130" button. > > Thanks, > Randy > >>I presume that you are using the same loop iteration to create more >>than one tab thus why the duplicate id's ? >>The easy way to generate unique ID's is to use CreateUUID() function. >> >>so you could just do this >><cflayout name="#CreateUUID#" type="tab"> >> >> >>-- >> >>Russ Michaels >> >>www.bluethunderinternet.com : Business hosting services & solutions >>www.cfmldeveloper.com : ColdFusion developer community >>www.michaels.me.uk : my blog >>www.cfsearch.com : ColdFusion search engine >> >>sky > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:348436 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm

