cfformitem

Description

Inserts a horizontal line, a vertical line, a spacer, or text in a Flash form. Used in the cfform or cfformgroup tag body for Flash and XML forms. Ignored in HTML forms.

Syntax

<cfformitem 
   type = "hrule, vrule, or spacer"
   style = "style specification"
   width = "pixels"
   height = "pixels"
   visible = "Yes" or "No"/>

<cfformitem 
   type= "html or text"
   style = "style specification"
   width = "pixels"
   height = "pixels"
   visible = "Yes" or "No"
   enabled = "Yes" or "No"
   tooltip = "Tip text"
   bind = "bind expression">
...text
</cfformitem>

History

ColdFusion MX 7: Added tag

Attributes

The following table lists the attributes and their behavior in Flash forms. For XML format, if not otherwise noted, the attribute is passed to the XML but is not interpreted by the basic XSL style sheet provided with ColdFusion MX.

Note: Attributes that are marked as Flash only are not handled by the skins provided with ColdFusion MX. They are, however, included in the generated XML in all controls except text and html types.

Attribute	Req/Opt; Formats	Default	Description
type	Required; Flash and XML		Flash: html: place the text in the body of this tag on the form. For Flash forms, you can use the following text formatting tags, most of which correspond to HTML tags, in the text: `a`, `b`, `br`, `font`, `i`, `img`, `li`, `p`, `textformat`, and `u`. For details on using these formatting tags, see the Flash documentation. The `style` attribute has no effect on the format of the text in type. text: place the text in the body of this tag on the form verbatim, without interpreting any markup. You can control the overall appearance of the text by using the `style` attribute. spacer: places an invisible spacer of the specified height and width on the form. Used to place space between form controls. This tag must not have any children. hrule: places a horizontal rule on the form. This tag must not have any children. vrule: places a vertical rule on the form. This tag must not have any children. XML: html: puts the CFML tag's body text in a CDATA section in an XML `xf:output` element. text: XML-formats (escapes characters such as <) the CFML tag's body text and puts it in a CDATA section in an XML `xf:output` element. hrule: puts an `hr` tag in the output. Use the `style` attribute to specify all rule characteristics, including height and width. This tag must not have any children. Any other string: generates an XML `xf:group` element with the type name as the `appearance` attribute. The CFML tag body is put in a CDATA section in a `cf:attribute` `name="body"` element. The XSL transforms provided with ColdFusion MX ignore these elements.
style	Optional; Flash and XML		Flash: Must be a style specification in CSS format. Ignored if the `type` attribute is `html` or `text`. For detailed information on specifying Flash styles, see Creating Forms in Macromedia Flash in ColdFusion MX Developer's Guide. Not used with the spacer type. XML: ColdFusion passes the `style` attribute to the XML. ColdFusion skins include the style attribute in the generated HTML.
width	Optional; Flash		Width of the item, in pixels. If you omit this attribute, Flash automatically sizes the width. In ColdFusion XSL skins, use the `style` attribute, instead.
height	Optional; Flash		Height of the item, in pixels. If you omit this attribute, Flash automatically sizes the width. In ColdFusion XSL skins, use the `style` attribute, instead.
enabled	Optional; Flash	Yes	Boolean value specifying whether the control is enabled. Disabled text appear in light gray. Has no effect on spacers and rules.
visible	Optional; Flash	Yes	Boolean value specifying whether to show the control. Space that would be occupied by an invisible control is blank. Has no effect on spacers.
tooltip	Optional; Flash		Text to display when the mouse pointer hovers over the control. Has no effect on spacers.
bind	Optional; Flash		A Flash bind expression that populates the field with information from other form fields. If you use this attribute, ColdFusion MX ignores any text that you specify in the body of the `cftextitem` tag. This attribute can be useful if the `cfformitem` tag is in a `cfformgroup` `type="repeater"` tag. See Usage. For details, see Flash form data binding in the cfinput tag description.

Usage

This tag requires an end tag or a slash before the closing end character of the opening tag, as the following example shows:

<cfformitem type="hrule" />

For more information on using this tag in Flash forms, see Creating Forms in Macromedia Flash in ColdFusion MX Developer's Guide.

Example

The following example shows a simple Flash form using horizontal rules and text:

<h3>cfformitem Example</h3>
<cfform name="myform" height="450" width="500" format="Flash" >
   <cfformitem type="hrule" />
   <cfformitem type="text">
      This simple form has two hrule cfformitem tags around the cfformitem tag
      that contains this text.
   </cfformitem>
   <cfformitem type="hrule" />
</cfform>

For a more complex form, see cfformgroup.

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