CF adding extra <html>, <head>, and <body> tags to pages

Report · Apr 15, 2013

I have been having issues with my titles not showing up on my CF pages. I finally looked at the page source in the browser and found that CF is inserting extra <html>, <head> and <body> tags at the beginning of the pages. (see samples below). I'm pretty sure it is the CF engine that is doing this because I took a cfm page and just changed the extension to html and everything worked fine (except the CF code). There weren't any extra tags inserted and the titles was displayed. I also noticed that the CF engine appears to be adding the very first line <!DOCTYPE HTML ...>

Does anyone know why this might be happening?

Thanks

David

CF Page - notice extra tags in red

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

<html>

<head>

<title>Untitled</title>

</head>

<body>

</body>

</html>

<html>

<head>

<!--

BODY
{
font-weight: normal;
font-size: 10pt;
font-family: Arial;
background-color: white;
text-decoration: none
}

Same page with extension changed to html - code is a bit different because style sheet didn't load because it uses cfinclude

<html>

<head>

<title>Login</title>

if($_SERVER["HTTPS"] != "on")
{
header("Location: https://" . $_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"] . $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]);
exit();
}
</script>

</head>

Report · Apr 15, 2013

Take a look at your Application.cfm or Application.cfc file you probably have that code in there (Application.cfc/cfm runs first on every page request)

Report · Apr 15, 2013

Peter,

That was it.

Thanks!

DW

CF adding extra <html>, <head>, and <body> tags to pages

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