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TimothyV_21
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August 23, 2011
Question

ColdFusion form and input tags not displaying.

  • August 23, 2011
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I recently installed ColdFusion 9 Developer edition and installed it on my laptop. I tried creating a simple form and seeing if I could get it to show up but nothing happens. I also tried this with my web host who supports ColdFusion and nothing. Anyone know what I am doing wrong? I've used ColdFusion b4 and even my old code won't work? Perhaps there is something I am missing for the newer ColdFusion?

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>CF Test</title>
</head>
<body>
     <cfoutput>
        <cfform action="cftest.cfm" method="get">
            <cfinput type="text" name="FileFilter" size="80" value="Shwa" class="textfield">
        </cfform>
    </cfoutput>
</body>
</html>
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    Dan_Bracuk
    Inspiring
    August 23, 2011
    Are you saying that the code you posted results in a blank page?
    If you view the html source code, does anything appear?
    What happens if you put some static text before and after your form?
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    TimothyV_21Author
    Participant
    August 23, 2011
    If I put any html in it will display. Anything thats written in ColdFusion will not display. I looked at the debugger in my browser and there were no errors. The html shows the coldfusion tags. Which it shouldn't, it should display as strait html since its a server side language. Which makes me thinks its not even looking at this as ColdFusion code but strait html instead. My file has a cfm extension, is it possible that the doctype info at the top of the document could be messing it up?
    I just found out after doing more searching that my web host does not support ColdFusion. This means that its not the code its the install of ColdFusion 9. Is there a setting that I am supposed to change in order for it to start working? The documentation doesn't really tell you...
    I tried reinstalling ColdFusion 9 and it still doesn't display anything.
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    TimothyV_21Author
    Participant
    August 23, 2011
    I was finally able to figure out the problem. Thanks for the responses. 
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    Adam Cameron.
    Inspiring
    August 23, 2011
    You mean you see NOTHING?
    What do you see if you look at the mark-up delivered to the browser?
    Do you get any JS errors?
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    Adam
    
        
                                                
    
        
    
    
    

            
    
                                        
    
            
                        
    
                                                                                                            
            
    

    

        
    
                    
    
    
    
    

    

    
    
    

                                        
    
                                                        
    
            
        
    
    

    

    

                                    
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