> What versions of CF are you guys running? I am running > CF5 and have problems sometimes when I populate a > form field so I correct it with htmleditformat() but just out > of curiosity, are you all running MX or 5? > Perhaps they fixed the problems in MX.
This isn't actually a problem with ColdFusion or really a bug of any kind. It has to do with the nature of the webserver -> browser interraction ... The browser never sees anything until after the CF Server is long since through with it, so to the browser, it's as though you typed in <input type="text" name="mytextfield" value=" John "Lefty" McGruder "> Obviously this can't work if you were to type it straight into an html page, because "Lefty would break the text field value. The web wasn't originally intended as a platform for applications, so there wasn't the antiscipation that people would be entering form info which would later be updated the way we commonly do now. So the only 2 ways to update this info in a form field are to either modify the data using htmleditformat() or by replacing double-quotes with left-and-right double quotes ( or pairs of single quotes ) or to use a client-side scripting language like javascript or vbscript to populate the form _after_ the browser has already been given a set of blank input fields. Neither solution is particularly attractive because you wind up either requiring javascript ( which is usually okay but is a problem occasionally because of paranoid people ) or altering the user's data ( which is usually okay, but you can never be too sure )... Isaac www.turnkey.to 954-776-0046 ______________________________________________________________________ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
