Thanks Sean.

And my next question is, how does one use AJAX :)

On Nov 19, 1:28 pm, Sean Coyne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> CF is server side.  Once the link gets to the browser its just HTML.
> The browser cant execute ColdFusion.  Now, that said, you can do an
> AJAX call to a CFC or a CFM page and return data.  This actually
> generates another request to the CF server which returns HTML, XML,
> JSON, etc to the browser.
>
> Sean
>
> On Nov 19, 8:21 am, BazD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi folks
>
> > Does anyone know to trigger a coldfusion function from within <a
> > href=""></a> ?
>
> > What I have at the moment is a simple test script, but all this does
> > is display "hello" when the page has loaded and not when the link has
> > been clicked:
>
> > <cfscript>
> > function test() {
> > writeOutput("hello");}
>
> > writeOutput("<a href='##' onClick='#test()#'>click here</a>");
> > </cfscript>
>
> > What I want to create is a simple link on a page which triggers a
> > coldfusion function. This all has to happen within the same page as
> > the client dosnt want to jump from page to page.
>
> > Im new to coldfusion components and stuff, not sure if they are they
> > way to achieve the results I need.
>
> > Any help much appreciated
>
> > Thanks
> > B
>
>
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