Creating forms with the cfform tag

You already learned how to use HTML forms to gather user input (see Retrieving and Formatting Data). This chapter shows you how to use the cfform tag to create dynamic forms in CFML. In addition to standard HTML form controls, the cfform tag allows you to create forms that contain the following controls:

• Text boxes in which you can specify the appearance, such as fonts and colors
• Text inputs that allow you to validate the data entered into the control
• Predefined ColdFusion Java applet based controls, including trees, sliders, and grids
• Custom Java applets that act as form elements

Most cfform controls offer input validation attributes that you can use to validate user entry, selection, or interaction. This means you do not have to write separate CFML code specifically for input validation, as you do in HTML forms.

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