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Anonymous
July 30, 2010
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cflayout, cflayoutarea and cfform - can't use target _parent?

  • July 30, 2010
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CF9 - I'm using a cflayoutarea within cflayout, then inside of that I have a cfform for login. When I submit my cfform it loads my login page (submitted) inside of the cflayout window, which I don't want. I've tried using target _blank, _parent, etc but it changes nothing. If I use plain old form instead of cfform with target _parent, it works fine. So does something within cfform clash with cflayout or cflayoutarea that I don't know about?

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    Ryan_Stille
    Participating Frequently
    October 7, 2010

    I've run into this problem before also.

    The solution is to move your cfform tags outside of your cflayout tags.  Hope this helps.

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    Anonymous
    October 8, 2010

    Good point, I'll keep that in mind down the road. Unfortunately I'm using cflayoutarea with the source attribute that calls a page (or pages for more than one cflayoutarea) and inside of the source pages are the cfforms, so they can't be moved outside. I'll just consider the cflayoutarea a feature I can use in some cases.

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    djeter3
    Participant
    April 4, 2012

    This worked for me...

    CFForm does something strange to the form code on submit.  Make the type of the submit to 'button' and add javascript to submit the form.  I have included the fix below.

    <cflayout type="border">

             <cflayoutarea position="top" size="80" align="right">

                 <p>

                     <cfform name="logMeout" action="#CGI.script_name#" method="post" target="_top"> 

                           <cfinput type="button" name="logout" value="Logout" onClick="javascript:document.logMeout.submit()"/>

                       </cfform>

                   </p>

            </cflayoutarea>

    Dennis

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    Anonymous
    September 16, 2010

    I'm bumping my own thread because I left this alone for awhile but want to revisit.

    <cflayout name="articleManagement"...>

    <cflayoutarea name="tabAdd" source="mysourcefile.cfm" title="blah">

    <cfform action="myactionpage.cfm" method="post" name="mypage">

    ...

    </cfform>

    </cflayoutarea>

    </cflayout>

    cfform processes myactionpage.cfm and hits the cflocation at the end of the processing page, it loads mysourcefile.cfm back into my cflayout articleManagement which shows one form on top of the other. My cflocation should direct it to the main page that holds the cflayout.

    Is there a way to break out of cflayout/cflayoutarea when using cfform? Using a regular form tag does not have this problem but I like using the cfform validation.

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